| About the contributing author |
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| Introduction |
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Plan before you privilege |
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1 | (16) |
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Adopting innovation: What's right for your organization? |
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3 | (3) |
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Reactive versus proactive approach |
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6 | (2) |
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Should you even permit this innovation in your organization? |
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8 | (1) |
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``The five Ps'' policy for hospitals that don't yet have a policy |
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9 | (1) |
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Be wary of privileging ``quick fixes'' |
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9 | (2) |
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Algorithm for deciding whether to develop scope-of-practice criteria |
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11 | (6) |
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Applying the Deming Management Method to innovation assessment |
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17 | (42) |
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Introduction to the Deming method |
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19 | (1) |
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Eleven questions for any organization contemplating innovating |
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20 | (10) |
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Five additional questions specific to healthcare organizations |
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30 | (5) |
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Questionnaire for the physician requesting the purchase or introduction of new technology |
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35 | (1) |
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Dealing with physician resistance to policy |
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36 | (2) |
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Worksheet requesting purchase or introduction of new technology |
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38 | (4) |
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Checklists for individuals, committees, or departments tasked with assessing a new-technology request |
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42 | (17) |
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Forming a technology assessment committee |
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59 | (20) |
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61 | (2) |
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Challenges of new technology |
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63 | (2) |
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Function of a technology assessment committee |
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65 | (4) |
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Five steps in developing a technology assessment committee |
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69 | (8) |
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77 | (2) |
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Researching regulatory and medical society guidelines on practitioner training for new technologies and procedures |
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79 | (16) |
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Avoiding new-technology hot spots and risk areas |
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81 | (1) |
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The ongoing assessment of guidelines |
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82 | (2) |
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Sources for assessing innovations and determining practitioner training needs |
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84 | (1) |
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Select medical societies by specialty area |
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85 | (2) |
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Select medical society recommendations for new-technology training by procedure |
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87 | (8) |
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Innovations and intraspecialty disputes: How to prevent conflict |
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95 | (24) |
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Understanding and mitigating disputes |
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97 | (2) |
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Sample privileging dispute case study: carotid artery stenting |
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99 | (7) |
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Steps toward eliminating or resolving intraspecialty conflicts |
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106 | (5) |
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Delineating clinical privileges: dispute resolution and new-technology policy |
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111 | (5) |
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Ten steps to resolving privileging disputes |
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116 | (3) |
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Assessing innovations, case study one |
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119 | (18) |
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One facility assesses whether to offer bariatric surgery |
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121 | (16) |
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Assessing innovations, case study two |
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137 | (2) |
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One facility grapples with an intraspecialty privileging dispute |
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