Psychiatric Peer Review: A Working Model
Abstract
The author describes a system for psychiatric peer review developed by a peer review committee in a general hospital. At the heart of the system is aform called the peer review check sheet, which requires the physician to specify diagnosis, reasons for hospitalization, and major symptom complexes, as well as laboratory work and treatment and discharge plans. Minimal criteria have been established to verify the diagnoses and to justify the need for hospitalization. Each month the check sheets are removed from the charts of patients who have been discharged and sent to committee members for evaluation. Those that are incomplete or unsatisfactory signal the need to examine the patient's chart.
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