State medical peer review: High cost but no benefit--is it time for a change?

From: American Journal of Law and Medicine | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION:

The medical community and policy-makers have widely accepted peer review of physicians as essential to encouraging high quality medical practice. Peer review is a process by which members of a hospital's medical staff review the qualifications, medical outcomes and professio nal conduct of other physician members and medical staff applicants to determine whether the reviewed physicians may practice in the hospital and, if so, to determine the parameters of their practice. l To encourage peer review, almost all states have granted immunity to participants in the peer review ...

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