Laws, Guidelines and professional choice

Laws, guidelines and professional choice.

My wife runs a family business in the Lake District of England and regularly interviews people for a variety of jobs. Her business includes a visitor attraction centre, and she recently interviewed a very nice 42-year-old gentleman who wanted the job of handing out leaflets to local shops and hotels. All was going well and, as they got to the end of the interview, she asked him if he had any qu...

Professional Activities and the Antitrust Laws

Professional Practice Guidelines

This policy document is intended to assist the developers and users of “Professional Practice Guidelines” that become policy of the American Psychological Association (APA). It is a revision and integration of two earlier policy documents from APA: “Criteria for Practice Guideline Development and Evaluation” (APA, 2002c) and “Determination and Documentation of the Need for Practice Guidelines” ...

The antitrust laws and professional discipline in medicine.

The decision in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar' in 1975 began a new chapter in the application of the antitrust laws to the professions and their professional organizations. The prosecution of professional organizations, and particularly of organized medicine, under the antitrust laws is not an entirely new development, however, because professional organizations had been involved in antitrust ...

Professional clinical guidelines for rare diseases: methodology

Guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances [1]. They concern often complex diagnostic or therapeutic strategies with several possible interventions at each step, where each intervention has to be assessed and compared with other possible interventions at short and long term for...