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Clinical guidelines and the pursuit of reducing epistemic uncertainty. An ethnographic study of guideline development panels in three countries

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ID4596520
AuthorsSaskia Wieringa (0000-0002-7758-8493, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Eivind Engebretsen (0000-0001-9455-110X, University of Oslo), Kristin Heggen (0000-0002-4913-3897, University of Oslo), Trisha Greenhalgh (0000-0003-2369-8088, University of Oxford)
Year2021
Volume272
Pages113702
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113702
PMID33548773
OpenAlexW3120857138
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited54

Guideline development panels apply multiple - often conflicting - understandings of knowledge, inference and truth in an attempt to reduce epistemic uncertainty. Guidelines makers, clinicians, scientists and students should engage critically and reflexively with the philosophical assumptions that underpin guideline development and inductive inference to build capability to deal with clinical complexity

Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Guideline · Inference · Management science · Pathology · Sociology · Clinical practice guidelines implementation · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Engineering · Medicine · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews · Psychology

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