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Sidebar - Beyond the Guideline | Using Clinical Standards Without Turning Them Into a Checklist
Episode 4: Beyond the Guideline - Using Clinical Standards Without Turning Them Into a Checklist.
An attorney points to one sentence in a clinical guideline and calls it the breach. The expert disagrees. In this episode I walk through how to use guidelines, hospital policies, protocols and regulations responsibly with one framework: source, fit, departure and consequence. We work through a fictional urgent care case, separate departure from breach from causation, and look at hindsight bias and cherry-picking.
Before relying on a clinical standard, ask four things: Who made it? Who was it for?…
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