Guide IV: Taking Control of Peer Review
National Peer Review Corporation’s Hospital Peer Review Guide IV: Taking Control of Peer Review outlines 15 key components of an effective peer review system. Guide IV is a hospital’s roadmap to designing, conducting, and maintaining a peer review system that works. Guide IV not only provides guidance regarding the appropriate broader infrastructure needed to perform effective peer review, but details the step-by-step methodology for accomplishing peer review that balances the hospital’s obligation to provide high quality care with the reality of limited resources and time.
These key components include:
- Peer Review System Manual
- Centralized Peer Review System with a Multidisciplinary Structure
- Establishment and Enforcement of Standards of Practice
- Protocols for the Conduct of Clinical Peer Review and Peer Review Action
- Establishment and Enforcement of Standards for Professional Conduct
- Protocols for the Conduct of Professional Conduct Peer Review and Peer Review Action
- Protocols for Referral into the Peer Review System
- Systems Issues and Accountability
- An Effective Peer Review Report
- An Effective Policy for External Peer Review
- Useful and Sufficient Data
- Analyzing “Trended” Data
- Integrating Peer Review Information into Recredentialing
- Training of Peer Review Participants
- Establishing a Peer Review System with Positive Medical Staff Leadership
Taking control is so much easier when you have the right tools.