PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zonana, Howard
TI  - Commentary: When Is a Practice Guideline Only a Guideline?
DP  - 2008 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 302--305
VI  - 36
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/36/3/302.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/36/3/302.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2008 Sep 01; 36
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.