| Today, many hospitals are looking to | | | | reasons.Outsourcing hospital peer review |
| independent review organizations to provide | | | | cases is an emerging a best practice. Many |
| hospital peer reviews on sentinel events and | | | | hospitals are routinely sending their most |
| bad outcomes that occur in their hospital. | | | | difficult and complex sentinel events out for |
| Why? Well it's no secret that the peer review | | | | review to independent review organizations |
| process often does not work very well inside | | | | because they know they can get an objective |
| hospitals for a couple of reasons. First, all | | | | non-conflicted decision and fast turn around |
| physicians are too busy working on patients | | | | time. Most hospitals are using IROs today for |
| and so peer reviews never get done. Second, | | | | hospital peer reviews systematically send |
| there is a lot of conflict of interest | | | | cases out and have developed standard |
| associated with peer review committees. | | | | criteria about deciding which cases to send |
| Hospital staffs have competitive pressures | | | | out as opposed to letting them languish in |
| among the doctors working there. Oftentimes | | | | peer review committees.Oftentimes conflicts |
| this can lead to unfair determinations | | | | of interest can not be dealt with effectively |
| against a doctor for competitive | | | | inside the peer review committee environment. |