The stage-value model: Implications for the changing standards of care.
Författare
Summary, in English
The standard of care is a legal and professional notion against which doctors and other medical personnel are held liable. The standard of care changes as new scientific findings and technological innovations within medicine, pharmacology, nursing and public health are developed and adopted. This study consists of four parts. Part 1 describes the problem and gives concrete examples of its occurrence. The second part discusses the application of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity on the field, giving examples of how standards of care are understood at different behavioral developmental stage. It presents the solution to the problem of standards of care at a Paradigmatic Stage 14. The solution at this stage is a deliberative, communicative process based around why certain norms should or should not apply in each specific case, by the use of "meta-norms". Part 3 proposes a Cross-Paradigmatic Stage 15 view of how the problem of changing standards of care can be solved. The proposed solution is to found the legal procedure in each case on well-established behavioral laws. We maintain that such a behavioristic, scientifically based justice would be much more proficient at effecting restorative legal interventions that create desired behaviors.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
135-143
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Volym
42-43
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0160-2527