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Physicians’ Disruptive Behavior: Grounds for Discipline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Edward E. Hollowell
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Medical staff clinical privileges are usually granted, denied, reduced, suspended, or revoked because of clinical competence and performance. Generally accepted standards for evaluation of clinical competence and performance are published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. In addition, some states have established standards by statute and by administrative regulations. Hospital medical staffs and governing boards, therefore, have standards to use in evaluating clinical competence and performance. Courts generally uphold hospitals’ employment of these standards as the basis of their decisions about a physician's clinical privileges. However, denial, reduction, suspension, or revocation of clinical privileges based on a physician's disruptive behavior presents a more difficult problem for hospitals because there are no generally accepted standards against which physicians’ behavior can be measured.

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Hospital Law Review
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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 25 - 26
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Copyright © 1983 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

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