Short of terminating a physician’s employment, appraising a physician’s performance is often the responsibility that administrative and medical...Read More »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit involving Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the teaching hospital of the Yale School...Read More »
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (the "Court") vacated a pair of lower court rulings, finding that documents in a physician's credentialing file...Read More »
The primary question a physician reviewer is trying to answer is whether a physician’s actions and decisions were appropriate independent of the...Read More »
Start by finding a couple of physician champions and APPs who are regarded highly amongst their peer group and appear to be leaders, says Carol S...Read More »
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (the "Court") ruled that a physician’s claims against the health system and...Read More »
The foundation for much of peer review is case review. And although medical staffs have been conducting case reviews for years, that doesn't...Read More »
A peer review culture must support physician improvement through structures, policies, and practices designed to minimize biases. And the best way...Read More »
The Supreme Court of Kentucky (the "Court") reversed a lower court's ruling, finding that a root cause analysis (RCA) report was protected by an...Read More »
Understand the circumstances under which the peer review committee typically recommends external peer review to the medical executive committee (...Read More »
