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Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine : Principles and Procedures / / by Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw, Jon Williamson
| Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine : Principles and Procedures / / by Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw, Jon Williamson |
| Autore | Parkkinen Veli-Pekka |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 125 p. 14 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 610.1 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Philosophy
Knowledge, Theory of Philosophy of Medicine Epistemology |
| ISBN | 3-319-94610-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What is a mechanism? -- 1.2 Where does evidence of a mechanism come from? -- 1.3 Why consider evidence of mechanisms? -- 1.3.1 Evaluating efficacy -- 1.3.2 Evaluating external validity -- 1.3.3 Other questions -- 1.3.4 Importance of considering evidence of mechanisms -- 2 How to consider evidence of mechanisms: a summary -- 2.1 Questions to address -- 2.2 Quality level of evidence and status of claim -- 2.3 Identifying evidence of mechanisms in the literature -- 2.4 Evaluating evidence of mechanisms -- 2.5 Using evidence of mechanisms to evaluate causal claims -- 2.6 Overall approach -- 3 Identifying evidence of mechanisms in the literature -- 3.1 Hypothesize a mechanism -- 3.2 Search the literature -- 3.3 Identify the evidence most relevant to the mechanism hypothesis -- 3.4 Presenting the evidence of mechanisms -- 4 Evaluating evidence of mechanisms -- 4.1 Considerations for evaluating evidence of mechanism -- 4.2 Presenting quality of evidence of mechanisms -- 5 Using evidence of mechanisms to evaluate efficacy and external validity -- 5.1 Efficacy -- 5.2 External validity -- 6 Glossary -- 7 References -- 8 Acknowledgements -- 9 Appendix A. A critical appraisal tool for evidence of mechanisms -- 10 Appendix B. GRADE tables with mechanism assessment -- 11 Appendix C: Databases for evidence of mechanisms -- 12 Appendix D: Assessing exposures -- 12.1 Example: carcinogenicity of benzo[a]pyrene -- 12.2 Comparison to IARC -- 12.3 Molecular epidemiology -- 12.4 Comparison to SYRINA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300623603321 |
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The Philosophy of Information Quality / / edited by Luciano Floridi, Phyllis Illari
| The Philosophy of Information Quality / / edited by Luciano Floridi, Phyllis Illari |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Disciplina | 020.23845 |
| Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Management Industrial management Library science Mass media Communication Philosophy of Technology Innovation/Technology Management Library Science Media Sociology |
| ISBN | 3-319-07121-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Luciano Floridi and Phyllis Illari -- Information quality, data and philosophy; Phyllis Illari and Luciano Floridi -- Forget Dimensions. Define Your Information Quality Using Quality View Patterns; Suzanne M. Embury and Paolo Missier -- Exploring information quality in the wild; Carlo Batini, Matteo Palmonari, Gianluigi Viscusi -- What is visualization really for?; Min Chen, Luciano Floridi, Rita Borgo -- Object Matching: New Challenges for Record Linkage; Monica Scannapieco -- Algorithmic check of standards for information quality dimensions; Giuseppe Primiero -- What is disinformation?; Don Fallis -- Quality Assessment Tools in medicine; Jacob Stegenga -- Educating Medical Students to Evaluate the Quality of Health Information on the Web; Pietro Ghezzi, Sundeep Chumbers, Tara Brabazon -- Enhancing the quality of open data; Kieron O'Hara -- Forensic Information Quality; Burkhard Schafer -- Information quality and personal archives in the wild; Jeremy Leighton John -- IQ: purpose and dimensions; Phyllis Illari -- Big data and information quality; Luciano Floridi. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483919703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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