Policy for External Peer Review

 

Unlike the external peer review policy at most hospitals, the NPRC Policy for External Peer Review provides the detail necessary to determine when an impartial evaluation of a physician’s clinical performance or professional conduct is necessary and who is responsible for obtaining and overseeing the process.

Specifically, the NPRC Policy for External Peer Review provides:

• comprehensive criteria for the use of external peer review
• clear and broad authority to officers of the peer review system, both medical staff and administration, to send cases to external peer review, avoiding the common bottleneck often caused by consolidating the authority to use external peer review in one person (e.g., the Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Medical Affairs, President of the Medical Staff)
• a clear process for the approval of the use of external peer review between the medical staff and administration to facilitate timely action

Adopting the NPRC Policy for External Peer Review means that the use of external peer review will be clear, the officers of the peer review system will have broad authority to institute external peer review and the approval process will be centered in a hospital committee providing the institutional support sometimes necessary to send a case to external peer review.

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See also:

Peer Review System Manual