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Causation in evidence‐based medicine: in reply to K erry et al .
Author(s) -
Strand Anders,
Parkkinen VeliPekka
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.12304
Subject(s) - causation , relevance (law) , evidence based medicine , ontology , epistemology , causality (physics) , medicine , alternative medicine , psychology , philosophy , political science , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , law
Kerry et al . criticize our discussion of causal knowledge in evidence‐based medicine (EBM) and our assessment of the relevance of their dispositionalist ontology for EBM. Three issues need to be addressed in response: (1) problems concerning transfer of causal knowledge across heterogeneous contexts; (2) how predictions about the effects of individual treatments based on population‐level evidence from RCTs are fallible; and (3) the relevance of ontological theories like dispositionalism for EBM.