committee established by one or more state or local professional societies or institutes, to gather and review information relating to the care and treatment of patients for the purposes of (i) evaluating and improving the quality of health care rendered; (ii) reducing morbidity or mortality; or (iii) establishing and enforcing guidelines designed to keep within reasonable bounds the cost of health care ... [, 4] any hospital board committee, or organization reviewing the professional qualifications or activities of its medical staff or applicants for admission thereto, and [5] any professional standards review organizations established or required under state or federal statutes or regulations.” In Daily Gazette Co., Inc. v. W. Va. Bd. of Medicine, 177 W.Va. 316, 352 S.E.2d 66 (1986) (<HOLDING>), we accorded “confidentiality to the peer
holding that the state privilege should not apply when the peer review records sought directly related to the allegations challenging the peer review process holding that draft pleadings are not subject to public records disclosure holding that the public records act does not mandate disclosure of records protected by tennessee rule of criminal procedure 16 holding that public disclosure is permitted when the records of a peer review committee are utilized by the west virginia board of medicine holding that physicians claim against peer review committee satisfied the interstate commerce jurisdictional requirements of the sherman act