Standards for peer evaluation: the hospital quality assurance committee.
Required recertification of physicians has been proposed as a way to improve quality of care. Hospital medical staff quality assurance committees may be more meaningful targets for reform than individual physicians. Review standards are needed to make these committees effective monitors. Increasing regulatory attention to medical staff peer review can be expected.
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Department of Surgery, Mount Zion Hospital, University of California, San Francisco 94118.
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D006278:Medicare; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States