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industry feature
Want Hospital
Admitting
Privileges?
First Pass a Drug Test
By Robert Lowes
P
hysicians seeking medical staff privileges at a hospital
should first go into a bathroom and fill a small
paper cup, all for the sake of patient safety, suggests
an article published online April 29 in JAMA.
Requiring physicians to take a urine drug test as a
condition of employment is already the norm at hospitals,
but lead author Julius Pham, MD, PhD, and colleagues
recommend that hospitals also screen medical staff
applicants for possible impairment by substance abuse.
In addition, while they are at it, hospitals might want
to subject their medical staff to random drug tests and
test physicians involved in any mishap — a sentinel
event, in quality-control parlance — that leads to a
patient’s death, writes Dr. Pham, an associate professor
in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore,
Maryland. After all, airplane pilots are screened for drug
use after a crash or near miss.
“Patients and their family members have a right to
be protected from impaired physicians,” write
Dr. Pham and colleagues. “In other high-risk
industries, this right is supported by regulations
and surveillance. Shouldn’t medicine be
the same?”
Noting that alcohol, narcotic, and
sedative addictions are as common
among physicians as they are in the
general population, the authors write that
“physician impairment seems to be a
possible contributor to patient harm.”
Reprinted with permission from Medscape
(http://www.medscape.com/), 2013, available at:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/804360
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Contents
Editor’s Column
President’s Column
Two Healthcare Worlds Colliding
Telemedicine Services Credentialing and Privileging
What’s in Your Process?
Want Hospital Admitting Privileges? First Pass a Drug Test
Taking Care of Business: Building Value as an MSP
Participating in NAMSS PASS ™?
Synergy Product Guide
NAMSS News
Happenings
Consultants Directory
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Editor’s Column
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - President’s Column
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Two Healthcare Worlds Colliding
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Telemedicine Services Credentialing and Privileging
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - What’s in Your Process?
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Want Hospital Admitting Privileges? First Pass a Drug Test
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Taking Care of Business: Building Value as an MSP
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Synergy - July/August 2013 - Participating in NAMSS PASS ™?
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