What's the point? No QIP is new PRO status quo

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Peer Review Organizations (PROs) have stopped using the Quality Intervention Program (QIP) which rated physicians based on a point system. The QIP was dismantled after PROs decided to base assessments on pattern analysis rather than case-by-case analysis. The QIP system had been criticized for being highly subjective. Under the new system, physician assessments are more generally worded and negative criticisms must be backed up with a rationale.

Management, Evaluation, Professional standards review organizations (Medicine)

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California medical board probe may dig up old dirt

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Consumer advocates accuse California's medical board of improperly closing 200-300 investigations of complaints against physicians after the legislature in 1990 directed a 15% cut of the board's backlog. Tom Heerhartz, an executive of the board, claims that new criteria for investigating complaints would exclude the cases in question. The percentage of complaints now prosecuted is about 18%, compared to only 8% under the old system.

Investigations, Discipline, California. Board of Medical Quality Assurance

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