Seven characteristics of medical evidence.

نویسنده

  • R E Upshur
چکیده

This paper outlines seven essential characteristics of medical evidence and describes the implications of these for both the theory of evidence-based medicine and clinical practice. The seven characteristics are: (1) Provisional; (2) Defeasible; (3) Emergent; (4) Incomplete; (5) Constrained; (6) Collective and (7) Asymmetric. It is argued that the epistemological theory that best fits medical evidence is that of fallibilism.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

دوره 6 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000