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9856164

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
33
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-2-8
pubmed:abstractText
Recent medicolegal rulings corrected practitioners for not applying all possible interventions in the care of acute rare conditions. The performance was judged negligent, not on the clinical information available at the time, but in the light of the later course of disease. This paper argues that quality assurance requires a system of critical self and peer assessment, superimposed on medicolegal judgement. In all instances performance should be set against (external) criteria, including guidelines. Guidelines, in particular for general practice, define optimal care, to entitle patients to what is relevant while at the same time protecting them from ill-advised interventions. The point is made that the medicolegal ruling must be based on the same criteria that govern self and peer group assessment, and not on whatever it might be possible to do (maximal criteria), to prevent quality assurance from leading to defensive practice.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
dut
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0028-2162
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
142
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1854-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
[Recent disciplinary committee rulings foster defensive medicine].
pubmed:affiliation
Katholieke Universiteit, vakgroep Huisartsgeneeskunde, Sociale Geneeskunde en Verpleeghuisgeneeskunde, Nijmegen.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract