Clinical Guidelines and the Law of Medical Negligence

Edited by Jo Samanta, Emeritus Professor, Law School, De Montfort University, Leicester and Ash Samanta, Emeritus Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist, University Hospitals of Leicester and Lecturer in Medical Law, Law School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Contents:

Foreword x
Preface xii

Introduction: clinical guidelines and the law of medical negligence 1
Ash Samanta and Jo Samanta
1 The early usage of clinical guidelines in medical
negligence litigation: an Anglo-American perspective 12
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2 Reliance on clinical guidelines in contemporary negligence
litigation in the UK: influential or determinative? 52
Rob Heywood
3 Medical guidelines in South African courts: exploring their
role in medical negligence matters 80
Camilla Pickles
4 Fitness to practice tribunals in the UK and the Netherlands:
the construction of (para)medical competence and the use
of evidence-based guidelines 112
Friso Johannes Jansen
5 The interface between clinical guidelines and health care ethics 143
Marwan Habiba
6 A barrister’s experience of the use of clinical guidelines in
clinical negligence litigation 175
Pritesh Rathod
7 The role of guidelines and protocols in clinical negligence
litigation: a solicitor’s viewpoint 199
Laurence Vick
8 Evidence-based medicine, clinical guidelines,
trustworthiness and safe care in anaesthetics 228
Rebecca Parrott and Debashish Dutta
9 Clinical guidelines in trauma and orthopaedic surgery 252
Simon Britten
10 A global perspective of the use of clinical guidelines in
medical negligence litigation 281
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Conclusion: clinical guidelines and the law of medical negligence 322
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Index 341