Standard of care:1.诊断和治疗过程ss that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance.Adjuvantchemotherapyfor lung cancer is "a newstandard of care, but not necessarily the only standard of care." (New England Journal of Medicine, 2004)
2.In legal terms, the level at which the average, prudent provider in a given community would practice. It is how similarly qualified practitioners would have managed the patient's care under the same or similar circumstances. The medical malpractice plaintiff must establish the appropriate standard of care and demonstrate that the standard of care has been breached.
