Medicine involves both art and science, so reasonable doctors can disagree on best practices. Guidelines on best practices should incorporate clinical judgment to account for this disagreement. A research group created a tool called the Value Framework to help providers decide if a medical intervention will create value for individual patients, as guidelines are designed for populations and individual decisions are challenging.
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1. Given that medicine is an
art as well as a science,
its inevitable that
reasonable doctors will
disagree on which
practices are best. How
can we take this
disagreement into
account by incorporating
clinical judgment into
guidelines on best
practices?
Best practice guidelines are designed for
populations of patients and there is an inevitable
challenge when providers are asked to make
decisions for individuals patients
Providers should focus on delivering care that
creates value for patients
Our research group has created a tool called The
Value Framework. Its a simple and concise
framework to help providers decide if the medical
intervention will create value for their patients.
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