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If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that every community and every hospital needs more 
clinicians, not less. For that reason – and many others – it is essential that the peer review process 
do more than pass judgment on the care provided by physicians and other practitioners. Peer 
review has to help all clinicians improve and must focus on offering the assistance that is necessary 
to keep providers within the community – and practicing – if at all possible. 
During the March installment of Grand Rounds, we will discuss a progressive steps approach to 
professional review that has been adopted by scores of Medical Staffs around the country. The 
nuts and bolts of a review process that focuses on retention and assistance, not judgment and 
exclusion, will be covered, including: 
 Graduated steps of the peer review continuum 
 Discipline as a last resort 
 The value of a central repository 
 Built-in triage 
 Transparency – and why it’s the key to success! 
 The value of clinical review forms 
 How multidisciplinary peer review committees work 
 

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