Practice Guidelines and the Standard of Care in Medicine

Practice guidelines may increase rather than decrease the risk of malpractice liability if they embody "best practices" rather than reflect the legal standard of care.

CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Maxwell J. Mehlman, J.D.

Within the past 12 months, Prof. Mehlman reports no commercial conflicts of interest.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CCME staff and interMDnet staff have nothing to disclose.

Release Date: 10/13/2015

Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, you should be able to:

Understand the practice guidelines safe harbor approach as a means of reducing physicians’ risk of malpractice liability;
Discuss the history of safe harbors and current efforts to implement them;
Enumerate the strengths and weaknesses of safe harbor approaches.

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