RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: When Is a Practice Guideline Only a Guideline?
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 302
OP 305
VO 36
IS 3
A1 Howard Zonana
YR 2008
UL http://jaapl.org/content/36/3/302.abstract
AB Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) have been promulgated by a variety of sources with differing goals: professional societies, state and federal governmental bodies, third-party payers such as insurers and HMOs, and hospitals. Compliance rates by practitioners are modest at best so that their use as standards of care for “usual and customary” practice is questionable. Some states are experimenting with the use of CPGs as a requirement for malpractice coverage.