Delineation of clinical privileges requires fairly and consistently analyzing whether each appointee's education, training, experience, and clinical competence match the particular procedures the appointee wishes to perform and the conditions he or she seeks to treat. Most medical staff leaders find it daunting to create a reasonable system for delineating privileges. Also, as medicine becomes more specialized, the privileging process becomes more complex. Collecting clinical data and references for privileging reviews Before you begin to process a practitioner's request for privileges, you should have clinical data for that practitioner.
Hospitals can take several different approaches to delineating privileges.
Because there are many problems associated with laundry lists, this book recommends core privileging. However, the laundry list approach is fraught with many difficulties. The laundry list privileging system requires highly-trained physicians to place check marks next to the most mundane clinical conditions or procedures for which they have been thoroughly trained and for which their qualifications are unquestioned. This requirement wastes physicians' time and bogs down the privileging process. Maintaining a laundry list is a nightmare for both the administrative and clinical staffs.