The “Seeking Fairness and Real Guidance: Physicians and Peer Reviews Report 2024” surveyed 1,023 physicians across more than 29 specialties between May 7 and June 14, 2024.

Fifty-six percent of surveyed physicians are highly concerned that a peer review could be misused to punish a physician for reasons unrelated to the review, Medscape Medical News reported Oct. 30.

The entire experience can take a physician by surprise. “A sham peer review is difficult to prepare for because no physician thinks this is going to happen to them,” said Laurie L. York, ...

Despite the positive aspects of current peer review procedures, there are limitations. Some studies have shown that peer ...

Peer review is labor-intensive and sometimes time-consuming, but without it physicians themselves would have to assess the validity of new medical research and decide when to introduce new ...

Failed Peer Review. The existence of failed peer review in medical research isn’t new. In 1981, the noted Harvard Epidemiologist, Brian MacMahon, published a “peer-reviewed” study in the prestigious ...

Eliminating the Board of Medicine and medical peer review is counterintuitive to the betterment of patients and physicians. The quality of a physician’s care should be judged by his/her peers.

More than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers, totaling $1.06 billion, from 2020 to 2022, according to an analysis of ...

Scientific and medical journals use the peer-review process to decide which studies are worthy of publication. But a string of questionable or allegedly fabricated research has made it into print.

Most physicians who conducted peer reviews for major medical journals received industry payments, according to a research letter published in JAMA.These payments from drug and medical device ...