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1Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.
Respiratory Care Clinics of North America
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
The recent introduction of therapist-driven protocols has given the appearance of restricting the professional judgment of respiratory therapists with decision-tree robotics while contemporaneously catapulting them into the practice of medicine. This is happening in the midst of a spiraling litigation climate. This article examines the legal aspects--from malpractice to licensure--of this exciting new practice known as therapist-driven respiratory protocols.