Surgical Standards

Are NICE guidelines too passive?

Published in Physician Law Weekly, June 2nd, 2004

The effectiveness of the U.K. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommending changes in surgical procedures within the U.K. National Health Service is questioned by authors of a recently published research letter.

NICE issued its first guidance on procedures and technologies to the National Health Service In March 2000. James Ryan and colleagues writing in the May 8, 2004, issue of the Lancet assessed the effect of NICE guidance on NHS practice for two surgical procedures: extraction of impacted wisdom teeth and the selection of prostheses for total hip replacement. The guidance on these two procedures recommended the avoidance of...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2004-06-02)

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