Clinical guidelines and the law

Guidelines : Law and the Workplace

Heart disease, guidelines, regulations, and the law.

The practice of cardiology is increasingly constrained by guidelines, regulations, and legal considerations. Cardiologists, like any other group of doctors, have a primary duty of care to individual patients, but also have wider responsibilities to society in general, to their institution, and to their colleagues. In the UK these duties and responsibilities have been defined by the General Medi...

Evidence-based medicine and the law: the courts confront clinical practice guidelines.

This article examines how courts are likely to apply evidence-based medicine, and particularly clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), in healthcare litigation involving quality-of-care and entitlement-to-benefits (coverage) claims. Exploring the "politics" of the current situation, it observes that, just as clinicians have been reluctant to use CPGs in practice, courts have been, and likely will ...

HEART DISEASE , GUIDELINES , REGULATIONS , AND THE LAW M C Petch

The practice of cardiology is increasingly constrained by guidelines, regulations, and legal considerations. Cardiologists, like any other group of doctors, have a primary duty of care to individual patients, but also have wider responsibilities to society in general, to their institution, and to their colleagues. In the UK these duties and responsibilities have been defined by the General Medi...

The study of factors affecting the implementation of clinical guidelines in Iran

Background and Aim: Clinical guidelines are categorized and provide information in order to help the decision-making of medical teams, with the aim of improving patients care. Therefore, this study aims to identify the factors influencing the implementation of clinical guidelines in Iran. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study performed in 2018‒2019. The study population consisted of m...