Falsifiability in medicine: what clinicians can learn from Karl Popper.
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Authors
- Taran, Shaurya; Adhikari, Neill K. J.; Fan, Eddy
- Source
- Intensive Care Medicine. Sep2021, Vol. 47 Issue 9, p1054-1056. 3p. 1 Diagram.
- Subject
- *MEDICAL personnel
*FALSIFICATION
*COVID-19
- Language
- ISSN
- 0342-4642
As Popper might argue, the preponderance of existing evidence on an idea should guide clinicians in deciding where to place their trust while awaiting the results of additional investigations. An official american thoracic society/european society of intensive care medicine/society of critical care medicine clinical practice guideline: mechanical ventilation in adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. [Extracted from the article]