The Research Synthesis Revolution  

Oleh:

Goodman, Kenneth W.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine Fallibility and Responsibility in Clinical Science, page 23-39.
Topik: Synthesis Revolution; From Narrative Review to Systematic Analysis; Meta-Analysis; Levels of Evidence; Communities of Inquirers and Epistemic Interdependence
Fulltext: The Research Synthesis Revolution.pdf (351.29KB)

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A special challenge for evidence-based medicine is what to do with all the evidence – all the often confusing, sometimes contradictory, generally hard-to-understand evidence. As science grows, so grows the need to collate, synthesize, and otherwise make sense of a burgeoning corpus. Our task in this chapter is to continue the discussion begun in Chapter 1 and look at a quarter-century of effort to bring together disparate kinds of empirical data and render them useful in practical decision making. It will include a discussion of the conceptual problems that arise when we gather information about the world and use this information to increase understanding and guide decision making. Indeed, the very idea of evidence in medicine is sometimes taken to be a simple matter of linking up facts for the sake of problem solving. But in identifying reasons for our beliefs we also want to know how strong a warrant they provide: how good are the reasons and how good must they be to compel us to revise our beliefs?

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