Professional Regulation and Medical Guidelines
Subtitle: The Real Forces Behind the Development of Evidence-Based Guidelines
Publisher: Intersentia Limited
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781780688190
Subjects: Medicine, great britain; Medical care, netherlands; Medical personnel, malpractice
Description: This book addresses the fundamental question of the creation of medical guidelines in healthcare systems, critiques the current state of 'evidence-based' guideline-making in England and the Netherlands, and demonstrates how the development of guidelines involves a series of subjective choices driven by economic, cultural, institutional and political forces. Four case studies, on lower back pain and on type 2 diabetes in England and the Netherlands, are used to provide a detailed empirical account of the development of medical guidelines.