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A case study is a detailed investigation of the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time. It is non-experimental in its design, in that there are no experimental controls, but can be valuable in exploring a new phenomena, observing and describing potential causal relationships, etc. Continue reading...
Expert opinion, not to be confused with either personal opinion (not part of the evidence hierarchy) or clinical guidelines, is the opinion of a respected authority figure or group obtained through publication or presentation. Expert opinion is not officially sanctioned by an evaluation committee and or based on a formal review of existing research, Continue...
Mechanisms are arrangements of parts/features of an observed phenomena that describe a stable relationship between its ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’. Mechanism-based reasoning makes claims about the functional relationship between inputs (e.g., an intervention) and patient-relevant outcomes, based on assumptions made about the mechanisms involved. Such reasoning will involve an inferential chain linking the intervention with a...
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