Documents created by nursing staff after receiving an incident report are safe from disclosure during medical malpractice discovery under the Peer Review Protection Act, an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled.
Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. ruled in September that documents, including a chronology of events and a staff re-education plan resulting from it, created by two registered nurses at UPMC Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh after an alleged injury occurred at the hospital cannot be compelled for discovery.
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