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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 12/2020

01-12-2020 | Review Paper

Using Peer Feedback to Promote Clinical Excellence in Hospital Medicine

Authors: Molly A. Rosenthal, MD, Bradley A. Sharpe, MD, Lawrence A. Haber, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 12/2020

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Abstract

Hospitalists provide a significant amount of direct clinical care in both academic and community hospitals. Peer feedback is a potentially underutilized and low resource method for improving clinical performance, which lends itself well to the frequent patient care handoffs that occur in the practice of hospital medicine. We review current literature on peer feedback to provide an overview of this performance improvement tool, briefly describe its incorporation into multi-source clinical performance appraisals across disciplines, highlight how peer feedback is currently used in hospital medicine, and present practical steps for hospital medicine programs to implement peer feedback to foster clinical excellence among their clinicians.
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Metadata
Title
Using Peer Feedback to Promote Clinical Excellence in Hospital Medicine
Authors
Molly A. Rosenthal, MD
Bradley A. Sharpe, MD
Lawrence A. Haber, MD
Publication date
01-12-2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 12/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06235-w

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