What determines if medical care was appropriate?

About this episode

The episode discusses how the NCMB determines the appropriateness of medical care in response to patient complaints.

Determining if care was safe and appropriate is the key thing NCMB has to do when patients complain about the quality of medical care. But what is the Board really looking at when it does this? Host Jean Fisher Brinkley is joined by Deputy General Counsel for the Board, Patrick Balestrieri who outlines the processes the Board uses when it must decide on whether the care rendered in a case it is considering was within accepted standards of care. View some of the resources mentioned in this epi...

People in this episode

Host: Jean Fisher Brinkley

Guest: Patrick Balestrieri

Topics covered

• medical care
• quality of care
• standards of care
• patient complaints
• medical board processes

Keywords

• medical care
• NCMB
• quality of care
• standards of care
• patient complaints

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NCMB

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