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Providing the highest quality patient care begins and ends with the interprofessional healthcare team. Every member is responsible for critical components in ensuring the safe navigation of the patient through the healthcare system with the highest probability of the best outcome. The details of each member of the team's background, training, knowledge, clinical skills, procedural skills, and communication skills set the actual foundation for performance. While each member's knowledge and skills may differ, the overall care delivered hinges on the interprofessional understanding of the other members' roles on the team and the need for high-level communication. Referral for peer review can be made confidentially by any institutional employee.[15] Institutional staff services are essential to the peer review process, including data analysts for data analysis, monitoring, and reporting; and staff office professionals and administrative assistants for meeting management, administrative tasks, documentation, supervision of root-cause-analyses, and process oversight according to staff bylaws. Physicians, physician assistants/associates (PAs), advanced practice nurses (APNs), pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals perform effectively to provide patient-centered team-based care, but only if their presence on the team is established through comprehensive profiling at their initial privileging and with ongoing revalidation throughout their careers. OPPE exists for all these professionals, as it must be in any high-reliability, high-risk, team-based, constantly-evolving profession.[9]