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RACJONALNE MODELE ROZUMOWANIA KLINICZNEGO
RATIONAL MODELS OF CLINICAL REASONING

Author(s): Wojciech Rutkiewicz
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Keywords: evidence-based medicine; diagnosis; reasoning; rationality; meliorism;

Summary/Abstract: Debate regarding evidence based medicine in current state focuses on basic philosophical as-sumptions of paradigm announced in 1992 by EBM Working Group. One of the topic in this debate is clinical reasoning in light of medical decision-making. Polish literature still lacks of comprehensive presentation in this theoretical field. In current article I present overview of models of clinical reasoning. I begin from the debate of rationality distinguishing two positions called meliorism and panglosianism.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 77-102
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish