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.
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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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