A shift toward limiting the privilege afforded to health care providers by the Peer Review Protection Act has placed a heightened burden on doctors and hospitals attempting to keep internal discussions from being used as evidence in medical malpractice litigation, attorneys said.
As a result, health care professionals and their counsel are engaged in a fight to “protect the protection” amid doubts about the continued utility of the peer-review process and the act that shields it from plaintiffs, lawyers said.
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