This paper explores the nature of causation within the framework of evidence‐based
practice (EBP) for health care. The aims of the paper were first to define and evaluate how …

Without ever having set foot in the British Isles, St Birgitta, or Bridget, of Sweden was one of
the most influential women in late-medieval Britain. Pious lay readers, such as Margery …

The high prevalence of multimorbid cases is a challenge for Health-Care Systems today.
Clinical practice guidelines are the means to register and transmit the available evidence …

Conveying the uncertainty inherent in clinical practice has rightly become a focus of medical
training. To date, much of the emphasis aims to encourage trainees to acknowledge and …

Objectives Prediction models may facilitate risk-based management of health care
conditions. In a large cluster-randomized trial, presenting calculated risks of postoperative …

Critical illness dramatically increases muscle proteolysis and more than doubles the dietary
protein requirement. Yet surprisingly, most critically ill patients receive less than half the …

Scientism is a philosophy which purports to define what the world 'really is'. It adopts what
the philosopher Thomas Nagel called 'an epistemological criterion of reality', defining what …

Evidence‐based and patient‐centred health care movements have each enhanced the
discussion of how health care might best be delivered, yet the two have evolved separately …

Rationale, aims and objectives Research findings consistently suggest that speech and
language therapists (SLT s) are failing to draw effectively on research‐based evidence to …

Issue: Epistemology, the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, value, and use of
knowledge, receives little or no formal attention in medical education. Yet the understanding …