Tacit knowledge as the unifying factor in evidence based medicine and clinical judgement |
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Authors: | Tim Thornton |
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Institution: | (1) Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, Centre for Ethnicity & Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper outlines the role that tacit knowledge plays in what might seem to be an area of knowledge that can be made fully
explicit or codified and which forms a central element of Evidence Based Medicine. Appeal to the role the role of tacit knowledge
in science provides a way to unify the tripartite definition of Evidence Based Medicine given by Sackett et al: the integration
of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. Each of these three elements, crucially including research
evidence, rests on an ineliminable and irreducible notion of uncodified good judgement. |
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