Articles/References For Clinical Guidelines: Litigation, Patient Safety and the Law

J H Tingle ‘Do guidelines have legal implications?’
Arch Dis Child 2002;86:387–388

The legal implications of NICE guidance

http://www.forward-me.org.uk/Letters/Legal_context_nice_guidance.pdf

‘Guidelines in general practice: the new Tower of Babel’  Hibble et al BMJ 1998;317:862–3.

Professor of Cardiology John Hampton 2003:  ‘Guidelines—for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men’

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/88be/52abb7babfbecc4c72af540db838f15b1762.pdf    Clin Med. 2003; 3: 279–284.

Adsead v Tottle  Lawtel 2007

Guidelines introduced at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich September 2018:

https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Guidelines-development/Writing-ESC-Guidelines

https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Guidelines-development

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Governance/ESC-Committees/Board-Committees/Committee-for-Practice-Guidelines-CPG

https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Hypertrophic-Cardiomyopathy

GMC guidance for doctors in social media

https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guidance/ethical-guidance-for-doctors/doctors-use-of-social-media

FOAM – Free Open Access Meducation – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.

FOAM

Miscellaneous reading

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/not-following-guidelines-doesnt-necessarily-make-you-negligent/10857764.article

https://www.acc.org/guidelines

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/feature/court-judgement-what-it-means-for-commissioners-and-providers-and-using-nice-guidance-and-standards

https://www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/case-studies/must-doctors-comply-with-guidelines

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/not-following-guidelines-doesnt-necessarily-make-you-negligent/10857764.article

https://www.gponline.com/medico-legal-legal-status-clinical-guidelines/article/1451396

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942031/

https://www.bmj.com/content/suppl/2004/10/28/329.7473.1024.DC1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109754/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539423/

https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article-abstract/14/3/321/948883?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/3/1/37.full.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10140847/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109754/

https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(17)32259-6/fulltext

https://www.gponline.com/medico-legal-legal-status-clinical-guidelines/article/1451396

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/gp-topics/legal/gps-defending-patient-complaints-to-be-asked-which-guidelines-they-followed/20037373.article

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08606.x