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Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review , nursing peer review ).
The Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed, student-run, law journal covering issues in health law and policy.It was established in 1999 and is affiliated with the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, in the United States.
If peer review protected information is transmitted outside an individual hospital, the peer review privilege for that information is generally considered to be waived. This limits the potential for aggregation of a sufficient number of patient safety events to permit the identification of patterns that could suggest the underlying causes of ...
In California, this move was echoed as insurance agencies and health plans were enabled to perform "peer review." This combination of events ended the ability of physicians to conduct peer review of themselves, and "peer review" of physicians became transformed into "performance appraisal" done by physicians and non-physicians alike.
The peer review Bulletin specifically addresses the effect of publication in a refereed scientific journal as well the variations and limitations with peer review: Publication in a refereed scientific journal may mean that adequate peer review has been performed. However, the intensity of peer review is highly variable across journals.
The rule, announced in April by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, would require nursing homes to have a registered nurse on duty 24 hours per day, and total nurse staffing of at 3 ...
Texas passed a "tort reform" law taking effect on September 1, 2003. [43] The act limited non-economic damages (e.g., damages for pain and suffering) in most malpractice cases to $250,000 across all healthcare providers and $250,000 for healthcare facilities, with a limit of two facilities per claim.
Because Ellen Rupp-Jones was sentenced without incarceration, the Texas Nursing Board could not immediately revoke her license as a registered nurse, according to the board’s deputy general counsel.