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OBJECTIVES To describe current patterns of practice of radiation oncology peer review within a provincial cancer system, identifying barriers and facilitators to its use with the ultimate aim of process improvement. DESIGN A survey of radiation oncology programmes at provincial cancer centres. SETTING All cancer centres within the province of Ontario, Canada (n=14). These are community-base...

Many Open Source Software (OSS) communities has adopted peer code review as an effective quality improvement practice. The informal, regular, and tool-based code review process has been called ’modern code review’. There has not been much research on the modern code review process. This dissertation aims to model the this code review process adopted by the software organizations through 1)under...

Fear of litigious reprisal may deter potential peer reviewers from participation in the medical peer review process. The federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as elucidated in Poliner v. Texas Health Systems, encourages effective peer review by conferring immunity on peer reviewers, so long as they ensure adequate due process. The American Psychiatric Association's "Procedures fo...