Developing Law on Professional Standards and Peer Review in Quality Assessment Activities

摘要

The paper describes the expanding role of professional standards and peer review activities in health-care quality assessment initiatives. It also describes how some traditional and some new quality assessment activities that involve professional and peer review are either building on or in conflict with existing legal processes and public policy. Areas of law examined include licensure, hospital and professional liability (malpractice) law, antitrust and insurance law.