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At The Medical Resource Network (MRN), facilitating external physician peer reviews is one of the primary services we offer as a legal nurse consulting firm. Read what some of our clients say about our legal nurse consulting services.

Often a function of physician credentialing, peer review is a valuable tool for organizations – as a mechanism for improving patient care and for fulfilling accreditation and legal requirements.

Peer reviews are frequently used to determine whether the care provided by a healthcare professional met an acceptable level, according to standards of care. FPPEs and OPPEs are the two most common types of peer reviews.

Focused Professional Practice Evaluations (FPPE): This is the type of external peer review our legal nurse consultants facilitate most frequently. Typically, our services are requested due to an adverse or uncommon event that needs evaluation by an impartial, external physician peer.

We facilitate objective, confidential reviews of physicians, using board-certified, clinically active physicians who are in the same specialty as the physician under review.

Typically, an FPPE peer review is triggered by a concern(s) about a physician’s professionalism and practice, or a specific case.

When a specific case is being reviewed, we present clear findings and conclusions concerning how medical care was managed. In the process, we identify any deviations from the accepted standard of care. We also carefully analyze any variations from practice patterns and/or expected outcomes – and the potential effects that those variations might have had on patient care.

Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE): Hospitals and other health organizations use OPPEs to assess the professional behavior and clinical competence of practitioners. The information gathered in this type of physician peer review is used to inform decisions about maintaining, revising, or revoking clinical privileges.

For more information about our external physician peer reviews, or to schedule a free consultation about our peer review services, please call (888) 899-1406, or e-mail medres@medres.net.

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