Decisions regarding patient/client care should be made by clinicians in accordance with their clinical judgment. Clinicians are ethically obligated to deliver services that they believe are medically necessary and in the patient’s/client’s best interest, based upon their independent clinical reasoning and judgment as well as objective data.
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Consensus Statement on Clinical Judgement in Health Care Settings
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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