Antitrust's recent attack on the peer review practitioner: is the Health Care Quality Improvement Act a viable remedy?

Peer review, an increasingly important function in the hospital setting, is unique in that physicians are granted the task of evaluating and supervising the actions of their counterparts. Regardless of the consequences resulting from the peer-review system now operating within the hospitals, it will continue to be a mainstay until a more workable alternative is proved successful.