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Article: Wrongful birth litigation and prenatal screening
- Article from:
- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- November 4, 2008
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Canadian clinicians must be aware of new standards of care resulting from national clinical practice guidelines, both to ensure best practice1,2 and to avoid malpractice litigation.3,4 Clinical practice guidelines can reduce successful malpractice actions through physician education and they may be used in court as evidence that the standard of care was met.5,6 The 2007 clinical practice guidelines on prenatal screening for fetal aneuploidy7 have expanded the potential for successful wrongful birth litigation and have set a new standard for family physicians, obstetricians, laboratory physicians, radiologists, geneticists, midwives, registered nurses, genetic counselors and ultrasound ...