Improving a rural hospital's peer review process.
Quality monitoring in a small rural hospital is a challenge on many fronts. The case study presented here illustrates a quality monitoring failure and analyzes the contributing factors. Based on their experience, the authors suggest methods to improve small rural hospital quality monitoring.
Hagopian
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Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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House
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McLain
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Herron
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D006743:Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States