Health Care Activity
peer review
peer re·view
Subclass of:
Social Control, Formal
Definitions related to peer review:
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A scholarly process that subjects an author's work or ideas to the scrutiny of one or more others who are experts in the field. These referees each return an evaluation of the work, including suggestions for improvement. Evaluations usually include an explicit recommendation of what to do with the manuscript or proposal. A chief rationale for peer review is that rarely is just one person, or one closely working group, able to spot every mistake or weakness in a complicated piece of work. This is not necessarily because these deficiencies represent needles in a haystack, but because in a new and creative and perhaps eclectic intellectual product, any one of these opportunities for improvement may stand out only to someone with a particular expertise and/or history of experience. Therefore showing a work to various others increases the probability that the weakness will be identified and fixed.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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An organized procedure carried out by a select committee of professionals in evaluating the performance of other professionals in meeting the standards of their specialty. Review by peers is used by editors in the evaluation of articles and other papers submitted for publication. Peer review is used also in the evaluation of grant applications. It is applied also in evaluating the quality of health care provided to patients.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Systematic evaluation of a peer's performance compared with professional standards of practiceNursing Interventions ClassificationUniversity of Iowa, 2007
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(peer review process) The process by which original articles and grants written by researchers are evaluated for technical and scientific quality and correctness by other experts in the same field.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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