Fifty-six percent of surveyed physicians are highly concerned that a peer review could be misused to punish a physician for reasons unrelated to the review, Medscape Medical News reported Oct. 30. A ...

Courts are protecting unjustified peer review actions by hospitals against physicians, according to a commentary (pdf) in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. The author is Nicholas Kadar, ...

Successful strategies for reviewing physician performance include peer monitoring on a day-to-day basis and establishment of a physician review committee, this new CMO says.

The way some physician performance is being reviewed – from those who are working on the battlefield to those serving in rural areas and teaching hospitals – is changing and for the better, thanks to ...

Oge Young MD, FACOG, lives in Concord. Dr. Nick Perencevich’s My Turn “Why HB 322 is important” provided an informative history of the NH Board of Medicine and emphasized the importance of medical ...

The strong majority of practicing physicians — 79% — have never undergone a peer review, according to Medscape’s 2024 “Seeking Fairness and Real Guidance: Medscape Physicians and Peer Reviews Report ...

The peer review committee, another function of that, is to, once a physician has privileges, then the committee looks at their quality of their care, and the quality of their medical practice, and ...

As scientific and medical advancements have accelerated, so has the complexity of medical decision-making, exposing a need for standardization in the United States. In 1952, the Joint Commission ...

The results of peer review proceedings at the another hospital may not be enough to base a dismissal decision upon, according to an opinion issued by the Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District ...

TUCSON, Ariz., June 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Physicians targeted for career destruction through hospital sham peer review have limited means of defense, but there are ways in which they can play ...