Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Premarital sex is "one of the most frequently discussed topics of college-age Baha'is Mohadjer says, adding that when in college, she foundthat to be the area of most peer pressure. "Peopledidn't understand that for me it was never anissue," she says. "You have to be very careful howclose you get to people. You have to be firm aboutit earlier rather than later because later is muchtoo late...
...didn't matter at all when I came [toAmerica]," she says. "I guess my beliefs werestronger than the peer pressure so it was veryestablished in me that I should abide by the lawsthat I believe...
...APRIL 17, 1985, the federal government issued final rules and regulations permitting Peer Review Organizations (who are responsible for monitoring utilization and quality of providers of Medicare services) to "disclose to the public PRO interpretations and generalizations on the quality of health care that identify a particular institution." Shortly thereafter, the Health Care Financing Administration released data identifying hospitals with death rates among Medicare patients which were signficantly above or below standard (i.e., rates adjusted for DRGs and a few other measures of population morbidity...
...system of peer review of research articles and grant proposals roots out unconcious bias in scientific findings. But the recent case of research fraud involves something else: conscious bias. The system of self-regulation in the scientific community works well as a watchdog of the former, but simply was not made to deal with the latter...
...diseases like AIDS, the conduct of scientists is ultimately a question of the reliability of information that determines what research and which health programs are funded. Editors of major scientific journals in recent years have moved to expedite the review of AIDS-related articles for publication. Expedition of peer review is an effective way to speed the spread of information. Expediting its unproven implications to the public...