General Hospital is performing peer reviews of their medical…
General Hospital is performing peer reviews of their medical providers for quality outcomes of care. The hospital has more than 500 providers on its medical staff. The process to peer review even 10 cases for each provider is quite extensive. The quality department has concluded that to accomplish this review process, they will review 20 percent of each provider’s inpatient admissions to the hospital every other year. In this situation, the quality department has applied __________ to their review process.