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Upshur RE. Seven characteristics of medical evidence. J Eval Clin Pract. 2000;6(2):93-7doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00244.x.
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Upshur, R E. "Seven characteristics of medical evidence." Journal of evaluation in clinical practice vol. 6,2 (2000): 93-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00244.x
Upshur RE. Seven characteristics of medical evidence. J Eval Clin Pract. 2000 May;6(2):93-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00244.x. PMID: 10970003.
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J Eval Clin Pract. 2000 May;6(2):93-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00244.x.

Seven characteristics of medical evidence.

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

R E Upshur

Affiliations

  1. Primary Care Research Unit, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 10970003 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00244.x

Abstract

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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