Medical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice Safe Harbors: Illusion or Deceit?

Abstract

The idea that physicians should accept recommendations from learned colleagues on how to practice medicine; is probably as old as medicine itself, but beginning around 1990, it took on new urgency in the face of rising health care costs, widespread, unjustifiable variation in practice patterns, concerns about medical errors and quality of care, and what some perceived to be perverse effects of the malpractice system. One solution put forward was practice guidelines

Keywords

Health Law, Medicine, Standard of Care

Publication Date

2012

Document Type

Article

Place of Original Publication

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Publication Information

40 Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 286 (2012)

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