Ask the expert: Is peer review of individual cases considered perception data?
Medical Staff Leader Connection, November 12, 2008
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
Although peer review may appear to be a subjective process—and therefore classified as perception data—in reality, it is not. Because case review is retrospective, the peer review committee does not actually observe the actions or behavior of the physician under review. Whether the peer reviewer bases his or her decision regarding care on objective clinical standards or by a concensus of subjective standards, he or she conducts the evaluation using secondary information.
This week's question and answer are derived from Measuring Physician Competency: How to Collect, Assess, and Provide Performance Data by Robert Marder, MD, CMSL; Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL; Marla Smith, MHSA; and Vicki Searcy, CPMSM.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Medical Staff Leader Connection!
Comments
0 comments on “Ask the expert: Is peer review of individual cases considered perception data? ”
Related Products
-
Medical Staff Briefing
This monthly resource acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and analyses to help you...
-
Effective Peer Review, Second Edition:
Newly updated and in high demand, Effective Peer Review, Second Edition, outlines and provides advice about how to do...
-
The Complete Guide to FPPE
Develop effective, focused professional practice evaluations and measure practitioners’ competency with the help of medical...
-
The 15th Annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium Seminar: Orlando, FL
The premiere event for credentialing and medical staff services professionals offers workable solutions for tough issues
-
The Medical Staff Professional's Handbook
Let your experienced peers provide you with the guidance and training you need to tackle your toughest challenges. The...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- HealthDataInsights posts new issues for medical necessity claims
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- Q&A: Incidental disclosures and patient privacy
- New FAQ posted on storing laryngoscope blades
- Sneak Peek: Effort underway to establish caseload benchmarks
- Tip: Perform your own internal investigation prior to government audit
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- HIPAA 5010 deadline extended, but threat remains, says AMA
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- E-mailed
-
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- Tip: Correctly code bilateral pain management procedures
- 2012 CPT code changes for ASCs: Shoulder and knee scopes and pain management
- COT basics to best
- Documentation and coding for toxic metabolic encephalopathy
- Guidance and tact key to compliant, effective physician queries
- Searched