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Developing a Cooperative Provider-Based Statewide Peer Review Service: Early Experience

Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Quality Healthcare, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, Correspondence: Charles M. Helms, Institute for Quality Healthcare, University of Iowa, 517 Westlawn Building South, Iowa City, IA 52242-1100

Douglas S. Wakefield

Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of a model of overcoming local barriers to physician peer review through development of a state wide provider-based physician peer review service. For this purpose, the cooperative demonstration project of the Institute for Quality Healthcare, The University of Iowa and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was used. A consortium of 43 Iowa hospitals developed a physician peer review service utilizing a pool of physi cian reviewers from member hospitals. Thirty-six peer reviews were conducted in 23 different hospitals by 37 different reviewers throughout the state of Iowa in the first 2 years of operation. Reviews of surgical special ists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric services were re quested most frequently. The satisfaction of hospitals with the physician peer review service has thus far been gratifying. The long-term financial viability of the physi cian peer review service has yet to be demonstrated. This cooperative organizational model of a provider- based physician peer review service may be reproduc ible and valuable to health care providers in other parts of the United States

American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 11, No. 1, 46-50 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0885713x9601100108


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