RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Clinical practice guidelines and the law
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 574
OP 576
VO 155
IS 5
A1 Kluge, E. H.
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/5/574.abstract
AB With physicians in Canada under increasing threat of malpractice litigation, it has been suggested that adopting clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) as standards of care would free doctors from the fear of litigation initiated by dissatisfied patients. However, ethicist Eike-Henner Kluge argues that CPGs can only be considered general indicators of standards of care.