Peer review: a secret affair?
Dunn, L.J.
Trustee the journal for hospital governing boards 31(4): 9
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-3674 PMID: 10307158 Document Number: 138293
Recent statutes and judicial decisions rendering the records and documents of quality assurance committees not subject to discovery and/or inadmissible in evidence are tactically ill advised, probably unconstitutional, and clearly self-defeating. A better alternative would be to allow access to the documents and information to all parties with a legitimate interest and to grant physicians immunity from tort liability for actions performed in good faith during the peer review process.