Practice guidelines: a safe legal lifeline?
To what degree should compliance with clinical practice guidelines protect you from a malpractice charge? And will physicians who are offered such protection practice less defensively, and thus less expensively? As guidelines proliferate, answers are emerging.
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003675:Defensive Medicine; D007087:Illinois; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008281:Maine; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014481:United States