{"title":"Clinical practice guidelines: quality improvement tools versus legal norms.","authors":"C G Wise, J E Billi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role of clinical guidelines in malpractice litigation has been controversial. The primary purpose of guidelines as a quality improvement tool must be sustained, and applications of guidelines beyond this purpose must be done carefully, with full recognition of inherent limitations.</p>","PeriodicalId":79476,"journal":{"name":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","volume":"1 4","pages":"212-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of clinical guidelines in malpractice litigation has been controversial. The primary purpose of guidelines as a quality improvement tool must be sustained, and applications of guidelines beyond this purpose must be done carefully, with full recognition of inherent limitations.