What is the duration of the monitoring, e.g. can it be a twelve month provisional period?
A. With regard to establishing the monitoring plan specific to the requested privilege, and the possibility of using a twelve month provisional period, it is important to remember that there is no required provisional period. The provisional period when it was required related to appointment to the medical staff and not to privileges. Using a 12 month provisional period for focused review might be burdensome when the volume of activity is very large. It may be more appropriate to consider a different approach for high volume vs. low volume privileges or high risk vs. low risk privileges for example performing a focused review for a defined number of admissions such as the first 5, 10, 20, etc, or a defined number of procedures, such as 5, 10, 20, etc, or for a short period of time such as 1 month or 3 months. For an infrequently performed privilege numbers might work better than a time period especially if the privilege isn’t performed in that time period. While the EP would require an
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