Consensus-Oriented Group Peer Review: A New Process to Review Radiologist Work Output

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Radiology Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 131 - 138
• Main Authors: Alkasab, Tarik K., MD, Harvey, H. Benjamin, MD, JD, Gowda, Vrushab, Thrall, James H., MD, Rosenthal, Daniel I., MD, Gazelle, G. Scott, MD, MPH, PhD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2014
• Subjects: Clinical Competence - standards; Consensus; Efficiency; Employee Performance Appraisal - standards; Guidelines as Topic; information technology; Peer review; Peer Review, Health Care - standards; Quality Assurance, Health Care - organization & administration; Quality Assurance, Health Care - standards; quality improvement; Radiology; Radiology - standards; regulatory compliance; United States; United States; regulatory compliance; Peer review; information technology; quality improvement
• ISSN: 1546-1440; 1558-349X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2013.04.013

The Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies have mandated that health care organizations implement processes for ongoing physician performance review. Software solutions, such as RADPEER™, have been created to meet this need efficiently. However, the authors believe that available systems are not optimally designed to produce changes in practice and overlook many important aspects of quality by excessive focus on diagnosis. The authors present a new model of peer review known as consensus-oriented group review, which is based on group discussion of cases in a conference setting and places greater emphasis on feedback than traditional systems of radiology peer review. By focusing on the process of peer review, consensus-oriented group review is intended to optimize performance improvement and foster group standards of practice. The authors also describe the software tool developed to implement this process of enriched peer review.