Downloads for Hospitals

Download articles related to hospital peer review. Resources include articles (pdf) regarding Joint Commission standards, best practices, hospital peer review services and more.

Bay Area Hospital Case Study

To avoid conflicts-of-interest, a small hospital sends cases to AllMed for review in groups, bringing about systematic and organizational improvements to the hospital and increasing patient safety in the process.

How to Apply the Joint Commission Standards to Hospital Peer Review - A Practical Guide

Understanding the impact of the Joint Commission standards and explains is imperative to credentialing and priveleging requirements. AllMed suggests best practices for managing the expanded role of internal and external review.

Best Practices for Enhancing Hospital Quality

Avoid the drag of internal peer review by reading AllMed's 15 practices that create the best and most efficient peer review process.

Best Practices in Hospital Peer Review

The guide offers suggestions to curb the problem of inadequate hospital peer review through the use of an independent review organization (IRO). It includes guidelines for implementing the best practices for hospital peer review and choosing the right IRO.

Hospital Peer Review Services

Many hospitals struggle with peer review for a multitude of reasons, including subjectivity and lack of time. Using an IRO like AllMed solves these problems by providing objective, knowledgeable and time and cost efficient review.

Peer Review Scorecard

A downloadable self-assessment tool for hospitals.

Anti-SLAPP Statutes and Peer Review

ALM Law Journal Newsletter Special Edition: California Supreme Court Renders Historic Decision.

Medical Staff in Need of Change

Explore a revolutionary way to reorganize your medical staff. With demands on hospital medical staffs growing more complex, the days of volunteer or popularly elected medical staff leaders are fading fast. Take a look at the history of medical staff leadership and learn about dramatic changes that could make your medical staff function more smoothly.

Amendment 7: The Patients’ Right To Know Flexes Its Muscle In Florida

The Florida “Patients’ Right to Know Amendment” or as it is often referred to “Amendment 7,” continues to eviscerate the peer review privileges which prevented the disclosure of information revealed during the course of a peer review proceeding brought against a physician or other healthcare provider in Florida.

Credentialing Case Law Trends—Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and Why.

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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.