Recall that a standard of care is a routine or prevailing practice pattern within a given medical community (Levine 1986).
Processes or strategies that will be used may be based on what the clinician was taught, his or her own representation of the evidence supporting each course of action, or the prevailing practice in a given institution [ 4].
So, yes, the sister actually has a large humane side, but the prevailing practice in those days was that you must never show it.
The results show that, for a very wide range of realistic parameter values, sustainable management of reservoirs is economically more desirable than the prevailing practice of forcing a finite reservoir life through excessive sediment accumulation.
This trial challenges current prevailing practice paradigms of whether a minimalistic approach in the treatment of ARDS, such as use of lighter sedation and no paralytic agents, improves outcomes.
She doesn't believe in innovating based on trends either, which is a prevailing industry practice.
Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the globe continues to result in their exclusion.
She cited "the prevailing practice of destroying anyone who is considered a threat to the higher authorities by your government, by means of murder, 'disappearances', physical attacks".
Nearly all states prohibit or strictly limit the use of polygraph evidence by both sides in a criminal trial, so the decision today will not change the prevailing practice.
"This was the prevailing practice, broadly held at many centers around the country," Dr. Michael O'Shea, a neonatologist at Wake Forest, who has conducted clinical studies evaluating NICU treatments, told me.
