As more hospitals and health systems come to understand the importance of forming a partnership with their physicians, more physician advisory groups are springing up. Read about the benefits of forming physician advisory councils.

• Assessing Physician Performance? Check out this criteria 
• Talk about physician advisory councils on the message board

Is your hospital satisfied with the job it’s doing in terms of quality oversight, patient safety, credentialing, privileging, and peer review? Perhaps it's time you hired a medical staff executive.

• Finessing Physician Naysayers 
• How Ready Is Your Hospital to Successfully Engage Its Physicians?

Lower mortality, fewer complications, shorter length of stay: The benefits of using intensivists, or critical care specialists, in the ICU are beyond dispute. They don’t necessarily happen overnight, however.

• What – or Who -- Is an Intensivist? 
• How much does ICU cost?

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