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Disadvantaged Physicians: The Ill-fated Connection between Hospital Immunity and Sham Peer Review

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Article Type Editorial
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Robert Poston, Farid Gharagozloo and Rainer WG Gruessner*
Issue: Volume4-Issue2
Pages: 184-187
Received: 2023-02-06
Accepted: 2023-02-08
Published: 2023-02-09

Abstract

An important responsibility of hospitals is to assure the quality of the medical care they provide. One of the key pillars of quality assurance is a committee of local peers to determine the professional competence of physicians. On occasion, incompetence or disruptive behavior of a clinician is found to have caused patient harm. The peer review committee holds the deficient physician accountable and the hospital uses their authority to impose swift corrective action ranging from remedial education, proctoring or the restriction or revocation of hospital privileges [1].

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© 2023 Poston R, et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 Creative CommonsAttribution

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Poston R, Gharagozloo F, Gruessner RWG. Disadvantaged Physicians: The Ill-fated Connection between Hospital Immunity and Sham Peer Review. 2023 Feb 09; 4(2): 184-187. doi: 10.37871/jbres1662, Article ID: JBRES1662, Available at: https:// www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1662.pdf

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Community Health

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