Guidelines
Guidelines are systematically developed statements designed to support doctors, other healthcare professionals and patients in their decision-making. They aim to provide appropriate health-related care in specific clinical situations.
The purpose of guidelines is to promote the transparency of medical decisions. They are developed by gathering and evaluating knowledge from different sources on specific healthcare problems. Additionally, consideration and discussion of opposing viewpoints and special situational requirements forms an important part of developing guidelines.
Guidelines do not release the doctor from their responsibility to check whether they apply in a specific situation. They merely serve as decision-making tools and are not legally binding. This sets them apart from policies.
Assessment guidelines for insurance medicine
These guidelines regulate the interdisciplinary aspects of assessment in medical insurance issues (general section). The Swiss Neurological Society (SNS) was the initiator of this general section of the ‘assessment guidelines’, which it also played a leading role in compiling. So the general section of the assessment guidelines already represents the specialist neurological perspective to a large extent, which is why it is considered an integral part of the specialist section.