Ensure physicians know restrictions on standing orders
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, September 1, 2008
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Healthcare facilities and regulators have long recognized the advantages of using evidence-based practices to enhance the quality of medical care. As a result, practice protocols, or standing orders, were developed to ensure that patients presenting with a defined condition or symptom set are provided with certain standard treatments, unless case-specific characteristics lead the physician to an alternative treatment path.
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