Peer Review Organizations

David Richardson; Karen A. Main; Stuart Graves; David L. Potash; Stephen L. Schechter; David D. Rutstein; William Berenberg; Thomas C. Chalmers; Alfred P. Fishman; Edward B. Perrin; George D. Zuidema; Sanford A. Marcus; Peter E. Dans; Sharon E. Otter; Jonathan P. Weiner

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Peer Review Organizations

David Richardson, Karen A. Main, Stuart Graves, David L. Potash, Stephen L. Schechter, David D. Rutstein, William Berenberg, Thomas C. Chalmers, Alfred P. Fishman, Edward B. Perrin, George D. Zuidema, Sanford A. Marcus, Peter E. Dans, Sharon E. Otter, Jonathan P. Weiner

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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To the Editor: Dans et al. (October 31 issue)* cited concerns with the data bases on which the objectives of peer review organizations (PROs) were predicated. As in the Maryland examples presented, we have discovered major problems with the federally provided base-line data that generated the objectives of the Kentucky Peer Review Organization. Most notably, we were informed that in 1983 the Kentucky rate for deaths from myocardial infarctions was 29 percent, as compared with national and regional rates of 24 and 25 percent, respectively. As a result, an objective to reduce “avoidable mortality” associated with myocardial infarction by 20….

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1121-1122
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	314
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198604243141718
State	Published - Apr 24 1986

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