§ 1-1709.1. Peer review information
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and Safety
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 1-1709.1
§ 1-1709.1. Peer review information
5. “Peer review information” means all records, documents and other information generated during the course of a peer review process, including any reports, statements, memoranda, correspondence, record of proceedings, materials, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations, credentialing data and recredentialing data, but does not include:
6. “Peer review process” means any process, program or proceeding, including a credentialing or recredentialing process, utilized by a health care entity or county medical society to assess, review, study or evaluate the credentials, competence, professional conduct or health care services of a health care professional.
B. 1. Peer review information shall be private, confidential and privileged except that a health care entity or county medical society shall be permitted to provide relevant peer review information to the state agency or board which licensed the health care professional who provided the health care services being reviewed in a peer review process or who is the subject of a credentialing or recredentialing process, with notice to the health care professional.
C. In any civil action in which a patient or patient's legal representative has alleged that the patient has suffered injuries resulting from negligence by a health care professional in providing health care services to the patient in a health care entity, factual statements, presented during a peer review process utilized by such health care entity, regarding the patient's health care in the health care entity from individuals who have personal knowledge of the facts and circumstances surrounding the patient's health care shall not be subject to discovery.
D. 1. In any civil action in which a patient or patient's legal representative has alleged that the health care entity was independently negligent as a result of permitting the health care professional to provide health care services to the patient in the health care entity, the credentialing and recredentialing data, and the recommendations made and action taken as a result of any peer review process utilized by such health care entity regarding the health care professional prior to the date of the alleged negligence shall be subject to discovery pursuant to the Oklahoma Discovery Code.1
Credits
Laws 1999, c. 180, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 354, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000; Laws 2002, c. 156, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2004, c. 558, § 2, emerg. eff. June 9, 2004; Laws 2013, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, §§ 2, 3, emerg. eff. Sept. 10, 2013; Laws 2014, c. 294, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
Footnotes
Title 12, § 3224 et seq.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 1-1709.1, OK ST T. 63 § 1-1709.1
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 125 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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