How Comprehensive Credentialing Can Improve Temporary Physician Quality

Hospitals' use of locum tenens physicians has more than doubled between 2009 and 2013. A comprehensive credentialing service can help hospitals ensure the quality of these temporary physicians, according to a blog post from IntelliCentrics.

Staffing agencies often ensure temporary physicians have all necessary credentials and required skill sets. However, using peer reviews, experience logs, sanitation checks and other such histories, a comprehensive credentialing service is often able to provide a more complete picture of a physician and help a hospital better assess if he or she would be a good fit for the organization, according to the post.

Using a comprehensive credentialing service also means a hospital would have a second source of information on the physician and not have to completely trust the staffing agency, according to the post.

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