Peer Review Primer; Part I: What Is Hospital Peer Review, Anyway?

Community hospitals and the doctors who supply the patient care in the hospitals have a symbiotic relationship. Both independent and co-dependent, they need each other to survive. The complicated character of that relationship is most clearly demonstrated through the hospital peer review process; that is, the procedure by which the hospital and the physicians regulate the quality of care provided by the physicians to the hospital patients.

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