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W R Fifer

Publications and source records attributed to W R Fifer.

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PubMed1979

The paid chief of staff: issues and options.

Creating the position of chief of staff to achieve a more formal arrangement between hospital and medical staff involves making a complex set of decisions--should he be elected or appointed, to whom will he report, who should pay him, what are his responsibilities? Dr. Fifer addresses these issues, suggests some options, and recommends ways to make the new arrangement effective.

Institutional Practice↗
PubMed1979

Risk management and quality assurance: integration for optimal effectiveness.

The following is the second article in a two-part series examining the relationship between quality assurance and risk management functions. In part one, "Risk Management and Medical Malpractice: An Overview of the Issues," published in the April 1979 QRB, Dr. Fifer reviewed the problem of medical malpractice--the primary motivation for the present interest in risk management--and discussed the characteristics of current efforts in risk management, particularly their limitations in light of the facts about malpractice. In part two, Dr. Fifer first reviews the major quality assurance functions of the medical staff. He then focuses on methods for coordinating these quality assurance functions with the risk management function in a way that will utilize the expertise of the medical staff and create a unified, hospital-wide system intended to detect and prevent deviations from expected patient outcomes.

Education, Medical, Continuing↗