منابع مشابه
Reasonable Patient Care under Uncertainty
This paper discusses how limited ability to predict illness and treatment response may affect the welfare achieved in patient care. The discussion covers both decentralized clinical decision making and care that adheres to clinical practice guidelines. I explain why predictive ability has been limited, calling attention to questionable methodological practices in the research that supports evid...
متن کاملDoctrinal Feedback and (Un)Reasonable Care
THE law frequently derives its content from the practices of the community it regulates. Examples are legion: Tort's reasonable care standard demands that we all exercise the prudence of an "ordi-nary" person. Ambiguous contracts find meaning in custom and usage of trade. The Fourth Amendment examines our collective expectations of privacy. And so on. This recourse to real-world circumstance ha...
متن کاملStandard-of-care testimony: best practices or reasonable care?
The standard of care is a mixed question of law and fact in which the factfinder is asked to determine what society is entitled to expect of a physician acting under certain specific circumstances. States frame this determination through case law and statutes. The precise definition of the standard of care varies from one state to another. The exact language is applied to case-specific facts, t...
متن کاملAffordable convergence: "reasonable interpretation" and the Affordable Care Act.
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the ...
متن کاملInitial Nonoperative Care Is Reasonable for Older Patients
Appropriate indications for rotator cuff repair are a fundamental treatment consideration for which there still remain substantial differences of opinion. Important issues include the short-term and long-term efficacy of treatment choices balanced with the risks of these decisions. It is only with well-performed, randomized controlled trials such as this one by Kukkonen et al. that better stand...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9173,1943-7722
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/111.3.426