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Brock Bordelon, MD, medical director at MDReview, answers the question "How do we convince physicians to take their turns serving on the peer review committee? Should we provide a monetary incentive? And if we cannot provide a monetary incentive, what other incentives could we offer?"
Prospective review is the process whereby the evaluated physician describes to the physician reviewer a care plan for a particular patient. This approach enables the reviewer to concur or disagree with the proposed treatment before the observed physician begins it.
Although the board is ultimately responsible for oversight of the organization, the level of data detail presented decreases as the level of authority increases. Unfortunately, physician performance data does not have the well-established metrics that are available for other data, such as...
Physicians may claim that the data used to carry out peer review is invalid. This is a claim that many medical staff leaders have heard. It is true that the discovery of even the slightest inaccuracy will invalidate the entire performance report in the minds of some physicians. They will assume...