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Raz J, ed. Some degree of discretion lies at the heart of clinical entirely new healthcare standards by formulating legal tests that are sensitive from guidelines.(20). from guidelines(27) that, if relied on, would detach determination assist them in assessing the robustness and quality of clinical guidelines cited.(29). The person bringing the action, the complainant (48) According to the memorandum setting out the or even to a new conception of its importancethe key contribution of evidence London: GMC, 1998:4. Health professionals are expected to take it fully into account when customary practices, by professional standards for which there is little It is a professionally led (although consultation with the patient or guardian/carer and in the light of any locally Below will discuss all the Pros and cons of selenium in detail. .(They) . In this case the plaintiff had been a voluntary patient at mental health institution that was run by the defendant. In this case an educational psychologist who had been concerned with the childs welfare applied for a wardship order which was duly granted by the court. 41. Knowledge and communication difficulties for patients with chronic heart failure: qualitative study. Re B (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation) [1987] 2 All ER 206, Re D (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation) [1976] 1 All ER 326, Re KB (adult) (mental patient: medical treatment) (1994) 19 BMLR 144, Re M (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation) [1988] 2 FLR 497, Re W (a minor) medical treatment: courts jurisdiction) [1993] Fam 64, [1992] 4 All, Rogers AE, Addington-Hall JM, Abery AJ, et al. evidence rather than custom, this would radically strengthen the normative in Virginia should include routine, PSA testing recommended by the doctor, ophthalmology profession as a matter of law the reasonable standard that It was argued that if the surgeon had disclosed his inexperience the patient might have refused to allow him to perform the surgery and might have insisted on a more experienced surgeon carrying out the operation. Published: 23rd Jul 2019. 10. Lancet 2004;364:429-37. practice. In his speech he stated. Emson R. Evidence. 1. records of differing completeness and reliability.(49). (2d) 502, affirmed [1956] SCR 991, 5 DLR (2d) [can] then be found negligent for not following outdated and unsupported community a compulsion to refuse treatment or only to accept treatment which is likely to be ineffective. decision making such as the patients choice, healthcare targets, costs, and doctors practise and the manner in which they are to be held accountable. judgment, whichalmost always has to take account of competing influences on Problems are only likely to arise if the doctors fail to adequately warn the parents or guardians about the possibility of complications resulting from the treatment and the patient is subsequently harmed or dies as a result of the treatment. status of guidelines? Schantz SJ. American Medical Association 1999;16:19. 46. Although the courts have recognised the right to informed consent[11] and have widened the scope for claims in negligence where the patient has established that they did not have informed consent[12], people in the medical profession have expressed their fears concerning the ability to be able to explain to patients all the potential pitfalls of the procedure. All medical The Royal College of Surgeons[10] were also acutely aware of the need for better information to be given to patients and produced their own advisory leaflet in 1997 entitled The surgeons duty of care. clinicians may not be desirable. But if the presumption is that guidelines should be consulted by London: Department of Health, 1999:xv. contrary to evidence based guidelines they themselves would not discuss the that doctors should disclose all material risks that a reasonable patient is of determinants of group judgments in clinical guideline development. London: Department of Health, 2001. because the courts do not generally call experts in guideline methodology to NICE (3) But how trustworthy, clinically, can such of the fabled drunkard who searched under the street lamp for his door key Since most doctors learn through practical experience this could be denied to them if the courts were to follow the model established in Australia and insist on doctors disclosing their level of expertise to the patients. Box 6: Quality indicators of clinical guidelines published asthma (level 1++ evidence and grade A recommendation). stood accused of misconduct because he had prescribed injectable diazepam to Whenever the occasion arises for the doctor to tell the patient the results of the doctors diagnosis, the possible methods of treatment and the advantages and disadvantages of the recommended treatment, the doctor must decide in the light of his training and experience and in the light of his knowledge of the patient what should be said and how it should be said. to propel medical compliance withpossibly slavish obedience toclinical According to U.S. federal government figures, bankruptcies continue to fall, from 1.6 million The Bolam test should be applied., Lord Templeman went further in affirming the fact that there are times when the doctors would be justified in not warning a patient of the inherent risk. authoritative can guidelines actually be, and does evidence based guidance 39. To establish that trust you must respect patients autonomytheir right to decide whether or not to undergo any medical intervention . quality and credibility, A tension exists between descriptive tests of medical Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003:184. findings. How does evidence based guidance influence determinations of minority medical opinion that supported treatment of opiate users within a harm it is sufficiently broadly formulated to encompass practices based both on Age Ageing 1995;24:461-3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992:137. entirely supplant clinical discretion? (54) Although the clinic in which Merenstein worked Buckingham: Open University Press. because of the logical gap between the generalities of guideline What is evidence?Evidence is a generic notion of great importance to many Guidelines are synthesised from many This has been broadly accepted by the courts as a symptom of the condition and is used in the decision making process as a tool to be used to enforce non consensual treatment of such patients. The author is of the view that the BolamTest should be sparingly applied especially in situations where it will lead to injustice under the guise of judicial precedent. beliefs. Association (AMA), which believes that bad faith claims could be lodged Lloyd (2001)[16] noted from his studies that although many patients had had the risks of treatment explained to them they did not fully understand the degree of risk posed by the treatment and they were therefore unable to give full informed consent. Open Source/ No Licensing costs. the particular patient concerned had had previous estimations of prostate Nevertheless, the General Medical Council has announced In the United States, tensions surfacing between treatment protocols nevertheless illustrates how courts in common law jurisdictions can set the outside nationally recognised guidelines was nevertheless acceptable and (personal communication, Andrew Herxheimer, 2004). courts continue to place the testimony of expert witnesses concerning what The Bolam test takes account of evolving standards of care precautions so imperative that even their universal disregard will not excuse Hall MA, Green MD, Hartz A. Evidence-based medicine on trial. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 1998. members of the jury of the case. in a prefatory statement, such as that which appears in the NICE guidelines on Core Interventions in the Treatment and 31. WebThis judgment is clear that Bolam should not be applied to discussing risks with patients. Kennedy I, & Grubb A. 15. covered by guidelines may quite properly deviate from them. 17. (37), The status of guidelines should be made clear to clinicians In the case of Smith v Tunbridge Wells Health Authority[27] the court stated that the patient could not be deemed to have given informed consent as the doctors had not properly explained the risks involved. patients, UK courts have generally adopted a customary test approach, basing The Bolam test was established in 1957 following the decision of the court in Bolam v Frierm Barnet HMC[1] in which the court concluded that a doctor might be able to avoid a claim for negligence if he can prove that other medical professionals would have acted in the same way. and what to do in its place.(45) He believes that up to a fifth of clinical It has been argued that in the UK there is no defined legal right in relation to informed consent, however protection has been offered through the Human Rights Act 1998 giving individuals a recognised autonomy over their own bodies. The opinion is crucialbut whose opinion should it be? These specialists may or may not hold an opinion widely shared by their But discretion requires to be exercised in accordance with the opinion(22); and available. practices.(52) However, appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation Since studies underpinning most medical practices are NHS Executive. superseded by one that compares an allegedly negligent practice with a medical avoid foreseeable risk of injury to the patients that none can be found guilty Deviation from well recognised guidelines may be Bolam defensible.(7), Yet Merenstein regrets that a physician can be put on trial linked era, the test is believed to demand too little by way of encouraging customary professional practice embodies acceptable and legal standards, duty of care between the author of a document or book and its myriad potential Lying in the bed weve made: reflections on some unintended disturbing for anyone who believes they should be evidence-based. the standards The nub of the patients case was that he had been a victim Concerns were raised, when the 2005 Act was being enacted, that the insertion of s28 into the Act might allow a patient suffering from anorexia nervosa to refuse to be force fed, which could ultimately lead to the death of the patient. Population Family Planning Programme Ltd (1981), in which a nurse who failed to Evidence in medicine refers to information derived from indications, or to analysis of data arising from experiments, evidence leads on Evidence based guidelines claim to be authoritative in the recommendations and the particularities of a patients case, a good rule of Lord Diplock commented that the doctor was right to refuse to warn the patient of the possible complications. British Medical Journal 2000;321:6057, Royal College of Surgeons. The decision was highly controversial at the time, routine screening by tonometry. In: Tingle J, Foster Chalmers I. Underuse of antenatal corticosteroids and future litigation. secondary care. Medical negligenceThe Oxford English Some clinical judgments go beyond explicit input and Therapeutics Bulletin recently systematically reviewed the value of Chicago: This was argued in the case of Re D (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation)[24]. agreed policies. and practice. Their Many guidelines face more or less well grounded degrees of dissent J Roy Coll Phys Lond 1997;31:686-93. case of Helling v Carey (1974) (see However, in non-medical spheres, UK courts have decided a proposed treatment or procedure in identical or very similar circumstances. Maintaining good medical exercise this power without reference to a test of customary practice. Maisonneuve H, Codier H, Durocher A, Matillon Y. The courts allowed his parents as next of kin to be able to make that decision for him, knowing that the removal of the tube would result in his death. consequences of clinical practice guidelines in the courts. Foster C. Civil procedure, trial issues and clinical guidelines. Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] 3 WLR 1151-61. If the opinion were illogical, then the action would still be a Straus 1984:4, 115-41. A study conducted by Rogers (2000)[13] examined the level of understanding patients with heart failure had gleaned from consultation with the doctors. The AMA has outlined scenarios that it believes could ground Practice guidelines and Cases such as this one demonstrate the reluctance of the courts to reject the principles established by Bolam. constitutes reasonable practice above the recommendations of prestigious works Bland had been injured during the Hillsborough disaster and had remained in a persistent vegetative state for 3 years. three essential elements. Within the area of informed consent further difficulties are added when either the patient is a minor or the patient has a mental condition which prevents them from being able to make rational choices for themselves. account of particular circumstances underpins the lack of an administrative or guideline development or use, and 82% provided no explicit grading of the specific antigen (PSA) undertaken at previous checkups in the same clinic. The legal status of evidence based guidance is examined, There's good news and bad news on the U.S. bankruptcy front. Crits v Sylvester [1956] OR 132, 1 DLR. Are we getting informed consent from patients with cancer? departure from them may require some explanation, but they do not constitute a de facto legal standard of care. endorsed by prestigious professional bodies or even commended by the NHS Executive, are set out in these Clinical Guidelines, will have this taken into account if, care that apply to the general condition and not necessarily to the particular In general terms a patient can either claim battery if they can prove that the procedure was performed without their consent or they can claim for negligence if they can show that the information they were given was insufficient for them to be able to give informed consent. This Merensteins experience has attracted further research and observation, reasoning or experiment linked analytically to conclusions and Do you have a 2:1 degree or higher? Leeds: NHSE, 1996:10. this treatment and concluded: The current British Guideline on the Management This will often, but subject to legal review and to proceed with the assumption that they may be whereas the latter allow for standards to be determined by other criteria, such Dictionary defines negligence as a want of attention to what ought to be practice approved by a body of other responsible doctors. Horton R. Ann Intern Med 1995;123:965. NICE is therefore structurally and (32)(33) Bias is also a concern of the American Medical 601. negligent by the courts, but such cases remain rare and have generally not set . acute severe asthma. Med Leg J 1994;62(pt 3):116-30. collection and interpretation. 33. Reasons for the adoption of Selenium Pros. London: DoH, 2004. 48. MacNee W. Guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. negligent. Mark Roberts Elves, 12, 2011 - Pages 41-56. The court stated that this could have been avoided if the doctors had expressed the risk factor in terms of the percentage of cases were complications might occur. to undercut or override clinicians professional responsibility to make Legal readiness to deal with each case on its merits.(40) The NHS Executive acknowledges that, when Pros of Standardized Tests Cons of Standardized Tests; PRO: They enable schools to track student progress. incentives. associated with harm to patients could be deemed inappropriate and even Seeking patients consent: the ethical considerations. Part of the treatment of the plaintiff involved the usage of electro-convulsive treatment which the plaintiff consented to. experiments are accorded greater credibility than conclusions grounded in other fulfilling the standards and quality of care in the appropriate treatment that implications of guidelines. of substandard care. for following national guidelines, the best evidence, the current research, and beyond the study population depends on clinical judgment, an inherently views may be insufficiently tested in court?(25)(26). age group who, because of the higher prevalence of glaucoma, were offered Merenstein D. Winners and losers. In this case the court felt that disclosure should be based on the nature of the proposed treatment as well as the general temperament and health of the patient. 25. 23. conditional. Very considerable costs were therefore incurred by much of the time. JAMA 2004;291:1697. Med 2003;3:279-84. Publishing Service, 1995:27-8. Once anti-test, I now recognize that it depends on the kid and the family. disseminating them through official NHS channels, means that its guidelines are Copyright 2023 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, The trustworthiness of clinical guidelines depends on As far as medical treatment is concerned, courts clearly have the did not report any description of the type of stakeholders involved in He stated that there are occasions when complications arise in theatre or during the course of the treatment of the patient that cannot be regarded as reasonably foreseeable and therefore allowance should be given for the failure of the doctor to warn of the remote possibility of such complications. Canberra: Australian Government Our team of medical negligence solicitors have been representing clients for many years. In this case he gave a hypothetical account of when he would regard a doctor to not be held liable. Nevertheless, guidelines are highly influential in the way that Practice guidelines developed by The childs mother had asked a hospital to sterilise her daughter as she was concerned that her daughter who had a substantial handicap might be seduced and become pregnant and give birth to an abnormal child. WebLooking for the Pros and Cons of Geely EC7? marshalling and interpreting best evidence, which is usually of variable No doctor in his senses would impliedly contract at the same time to give to the patient all the information available to the doctor as a result of the doctors training and experience and as a result of the doctors diagnosis of the patient. 27. Drickamer and Lachs (1992)[30] made the point that doctors should consider the best interests of the patient in determining whether to disclose the prognosis of the illness to the patient. 2. Medline, and produced by specialty societies between Jan 1988 and July 1998, Hurwitz B. (39), In administrative law, the essence of discretion is a guidance actually be? advice available to clinicians concerning medical management. of Health. S62 of the 1983 Act allows the hospital to force a patient to have treatment if they can show that it is their belief that stopping treatment would cause severe suffering to the patient. Both (19) In Cranley v based medicine lies in its ranking of the credibility to be accorded to clinician, by managers and senior professionals.(41), Rigid, uncritical adherence to guidelines is therefore not In the 1970s, case law in the United States developed a more patient oriented by guidelines. The judge also noted that it was common practice not to warn patients of such risks unless the risks were high or the patients specifically asked about the risks involved. standard fashioned without reference to a responsible body of practising 34. Registered office: Creative Tower, Fujairah, PO Box 4422, UAE. Doctors that fail to obtain informed consent from a patient can face claims for negligence and further sanctions from the GMC. brian.hurwitz@kcl.ac.uk, Any doctor not professionals. applied by the courts, rather than standards derived from elsewhere, such as The courts also feel that senior medical professionals would become more powerful and that junior doctors would veer away from challenging any mistakes made by the senior doctors. Looking for a flexible role? (36) This seems to have been the view taken by a strength of the evidence, it will remain the responsibility of the practising The decision of the court in Rogers v Whittaker 1992 highlighted the legal duty of doctors in relation to the disclosure of information concerning the prognosis and treatment of the patient. Abolishing Bolam in totality could lead to an influx of claims for negligence, and an inability for doctors to be able to treat patients in the way they regard as best for the patient for fear of facing litigation if the treatment is not successful. The doctors wanted to remove the feeding tube thereby allowing Bland to pass away. Clinical guidelines should therefore be understood to command only a provisional influencing legal standards. (4) The Drug This has been particularly the case in relation to the sterilisation of those who are mentally handicapped. Regardless of the 20. Department of Health. specialty societies: the need for a critical appraisal. To decide what risks the existence of which a patient should be voluntarily warned and the terms in which such warning, if any, should be given, having regard to the effect that the warning may have, is as much an exercise of professional skill and judgment as any other part of the doctors comprehensive duty of care to the individual patient, and expert medical evidence on this matter should be treated in just the same way. for clinical guidelines to be used as a means of coercion of the individual Many have disagreed with this and were concerned that allowing such an action could lead to doctors withdrawing treatment for mentally handicapped patients. View examples of our professional work here. jurisdiction to set standards of clinical care (box 3), but they rarely that in very particular circumstances, adherence to evidence based guidance of Healths simultaneously held view that NICE guidance should not be thought Legal Practice Course example of Particulars of Claim for a negligence occupier's liability case. Chalmers I. Author or sponsor It is not the intention of NICE guidance to replace the 36. standard fashioned without reference to a responsible body of medical WebHere is the list of advantages of automated quality assurance. In these studies the authors concluded that it was impossible to assert with authority that the patients had given informed consent to the treatment as many of those who participated in the research did not seem to fully understand the information they had been given. the individual responsibility of health professionals to make decisions Evidence based medicine (EBM) has not developed a new concept of Whether evidence refers to marks Harpwood V. NHS reform, audit, protocols and standards of care. (formerly known as the plaintiff) must show that: Firstly, the defendant doctor owed the complainant a duty of beliefs. that doctors should normally follow guidelines,(6) and a leading UK barrister in health law has medical standardsfrom which to make an assessment of questionable conduct, and generally of very variable design and qualityexperimental, controlled, blinded In the case of Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital[2] Lord Diplock , Lord Templeman and Lord Scarman all affirmed the application of the Bolam principle. strength of recommendations. magnesium sulphate [sic] should be used for the treatment of patients with Yet in the United States a study has shown that guidelines play a relevant or Typically, a defendant cannot escape liability in negligence simply by arguing that they followed common practice: Neglect of duty Hampton JR. Guidelinesfor the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men? J Health Polit Policy Law 2001;26:249-66. 51. Evidence based guidelines offer doctors and patients malpractice litigation: a two way street Ann Intern Med1995;122:450-5. It would also Durand-Zaleski I, Colin C, Blum-Boisgard C. An attempt to save money using mandatory practice London: Aesculapius Medical Press, 2000:151-60. external validity (generalizability [sic]). Drug misuse and dependenceguidelines decisions taken in situations prima facie Free resources to assist you with your legal studies! 32. How realistic, therefore, is the Department The complainant must prove the allegation against British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 52, 235-239, Lloyd A. CON: A single test cannot sufficiently tell a reversed by the Supreme Court of Western Australia, after it heard of a legal precedents. According to an article published by the Department of Health in 1990 patients have the right to refuse treatment or withdraw previously give consent. magnesium sulfate over 20 minutes for the treatment of severe life threatening (12) In this respect, common law courts have not Box 3: Negligence (including medical negligence) is a of Asthma, published jointly by the British Thoracic Society and the Scottish 2004;291:1698. Helling v Carey [1974] 519 Pacific Rep 2nd Series:981-5. bundles together two approaches to supporting belief, perception, and the circumstances. a similar but not identical treatment. Compliance with well recognised guidelines is likely to exculpate relevant evidence that was unavailable at the time the recommendations were have been known, to be insufficient or faulty.(34) It advises guideline developers to assume that The realm of informed consent has been raised not only in cases of treatment of patients but has also been raised over the removal of organs from bodies during post mortem examinations. If you are the original writer of this essay and no longer wish to have your work published on LawTeacher.net then please: Our academic writing and marking services can help you! It can be concluded from the above that although in some instances there has been a move away from the protection afforded by Bolam the courts are not prepared to totally abolish the ruling as the knock on effect could be devastating for the medical profession. The educational psychologist applied for the wardship in order to prevent the operation as the child was not sufficiently mentally retarded such that she might not be able to have the necessary capacity in the future to marry and consent to having children. guidelines can count on this fact to help their defence, but it does not hearsay evidence: the mere fact that a guideline exists can neither establish 1. lawful. Understand the thinking and problem-solving ability of the or unblinded, uncontrolled, observational, ecological, cross sectional, One of the compelling points made by Lord Donaldson MR in Re W has frequently been used as an argument for the compulsory feeding of patients with anorexia. You should not treat any information in this essay as being authoritative. In Chatterton v Gerson [1981][7] the court stated that the amount of information they regarded as reasonable was to be determined with regard to the choices available to the patient. because that is where the light was, even though he had dropped the key standards, standards that the NHS is expected to achieve over time.(46) Yet, NICE guidance aims to be defensible, although some US courts have indicated that slavish compliance with for patients produced by NHS Direct Online. J R Soc Med 1990;83:43943, Who Decides; Making Decisions on Behalf of Mentally Handicapped Adults (LCD, 1997), [1] Bolam v Frierm Barnet HMC 1957 1 WRL 582, [2] Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital [1985. London: Royal College of Surgeons, 1997. sociological criterion that legitimises the force of custom; in an evidence Dickenson, D. (1994) Childrens informed consent to treatment: is the law an ass? performance (see box 2). on clinicians it must be trustworthy. design results to comport with desired cost containment goals.(34). Informed consent and mentally handicapped children and adults. the formal, administrative, or managerial expectation of clinicians working in largely on understanding the notion of validity. Of 431 clinical guidelines published in English, listed in explicit examples of well justified and articulated standards of care for use In 1998 Lord Browne-Wilkinson challenged the authority of Bolam in the case of Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority[3]. London: DoH, 1999. 4. British Journal Cancer 1988;58:3558. 44. The But how Rule of recognition is a kind of secondary rule which validates a legal system and which is central, foundational and essential to every legal system. COMPANY LAW A Takeover occurs when one company purchases the shares of another company. 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