"minimum standard of care" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the bare minimum level of care or responsibility that is expected or required in a certain situation. Example: "The doctor was accused of falling below the minimum standard of care when he failed to properly diagnose the patient's condition."
A large ongoing European collaborative network (SHARE) is being developed to standardize care, and create a basic minimum standard of care across Europe for young people with JIA: the SHARE recommendations have not yet been published [ 21].
The document is designed to stipulate the minimum standard of care required for dogs over their life.
In 1998, America's National Judicial Conference endorsed a report by a senior judge stating that all capital defence teams should include a mitigation specialist: this, it said, was nothing less than a "minimum standard of care".
But only a relative handful of children with autism are thought to receive even the minimum standard of care, a pattern reflected in an increase in requests for institutional placements as the leading edge of last decade's cases reaches adolescence.
Pregnant women, across the country and anywhere along the income spectrum, will for the first time have guaranteed access to health insurance offering a minimum standard of care that will help keep their babies alive.
He studied the case and concluded that "the conduct of Messrs Butts and Horwitz fell far beneath the bare minimum standard of care, let alone the standard applicable in a capital case; that they not only committed malpractice and breached multiple fiduciary duties, but also appear to have abandoned their client long before they did anything meaningful pursuant to their appointment by this court".
Vouchers can help to ensure and improve quality by assessing providers and stipulating minimum standards of care for entry to the scheme.
Since the early 1990s, laws and rules have set minimum standards of care, but the controversy over the appropriate role of private providers continues [7, 10].
It also mandates inspections of breeding premises twice per year and sets minimum standards of care for dogs.
But she noted that during the height of the influx last year, the offices temporarily lowered their minimum standards of care for minors.
While the federal Animal Welfare Act sets minimum standards of care, these standards are grossly inadequate -- enforcement is underfunded and too often lacks teeth.
