| A view from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research: the use of language in clinical practice guidelines. | |
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PMID: 8220815 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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"Good medicine is good law" is the first principle for writing good guidelines. The most important legal inquiry will be whether the language specifies mandatory or persuasive actions. Ordinary words may be hazardous when they are used ambiguously and create more than one meaning. That may mean a jury will decide what was meant. |
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Authors:
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K Hastings |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement Volume: 19 ISSN: 1070-3241 ISO Abbreviation: Jt Comm J Qual Improv Publication Date: 1993 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1993-12-10 Completed Date: 1993-12-10 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9315239 Medline TA: Jt Comm J Qual Improv Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 335-41 Citation Subset: IM |
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Legal Medicine Program, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, Maryland. |
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Defensive Medicine
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legislation & jurisprudence Health Policy / legislation & jurisprudence* Health Services Research / legislation & jurisprudence* Humans Malpractice / legislation & jurisprudence Practice Guidelines as Topic* Psycholinguistics Quality Assurance, Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence* Semantics United States |
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