Protected professional practice evaluation: A continuous quality-improvement process.

Purpose: The development, implementation, and evaluation of a protected peer-review process for clinical pharmacists with advanced scopes of practice are described.

Summary: A protected practice evaluation committee (PPEC) was created at a Veterans Affairs medical center to formulate policies and procedures for conducting peer reviews. The committee comprises six clinical pharmacists, none of whom hold a supervisory position, and assigns appropriate peers to review and rate clinical pharmacists' cases based on PPEC-developed performance measures.