Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine : Principles and Procedures

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen

ISBN 10: 3319946099 / ISBN 13: 9783319946092

Editore: Springer, Berlin, Springer International Publishing, University Of Kent, Springer, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such evidence into account in the evidence appraisal process. In addition, it develops procedures for seeking evidence of mechanisms, for evaluating evidence of mechanisms, and for combining this evaluation with evidence of association in order to yield an overall assessment of effectiveness.Evidence-based medicine seeks to achieve improved health outcomes by making evidence explicit and by developing explicit methods for evaluating it. To date, evidence-based medicine has largely focused on evidence of association produced by clinical studies. As such, it has tended to overlook evidence of pathophysiological mechanisms and evidence of the mechanisms of action of interventions. The bookoffers a useful guide for all those whose work involves evaluating evidence in the health sciences, including those who need to determine the effectiveness of health interventions and those who need to ascertain the effects of environmental exposures. Codice articolo 9783319946092

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Titolo: Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in ...

Casa editrice: Springer, Berlin, Springer International Publishing, University Of Kent, Springer

Data di pubblicazione: 2018

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu