
NEJM Interview: Prof. Nathan Cortez on legal and regulatory systems designed to prevent avoidable medical errors in the United States.
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The Role of Certification in Quality Control in Hospitals
Certification is an extra layer on top of physician licensing that governs your credentials. It's important for credentialing and a number of other hurdles physicians who practise in hospital settings have to meet. During the first half of the twentieth century, the quality of care in hospitals was generally overseen by the practitioners. Overtime oversight is shifted by moving outward, outward and towards gathering kind of better measures of quality.
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