Explores how clinical guidelines are developed and applied and draws together principles of best practice. Relevant legal issues and how they are applied are also discussed, making this work useful for healthcarers who develop guidelines. Issues such as standards of care are also raised.
Clinical Guidelines: Law Policy & Practice Summary
Clinical Guidelines: Law Policy & Practice by John Tingle
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
About John Tingle
John Tingle, BA Law (Hons), Cert Ed, MEd, Barrister, is Reader in Health Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. Charles Foster, Barrister, practises primarily in medical law at the Chambers of Kieran Coonan QC.
Table of Contents
Why clinical guidelines? - a nursing perspective; why clinical guidelines? - a medical perspective; clinical guidelines in general medical practice; designing clinical guidelines - steps and procedures; how to base your guidelines on clinical evidence - steps and procedures; the role of the clinical institutions and central government in guideline creation and development; the law and clinical guidelines - key issues; civil procedure, trial issues and clinical guidelines.
Additional information
GOR004942600
9781859416921
1859416926
Clinical Guidelines: Law Policy & Practice by John Tingle
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