Aggregating evidence about the positive and negative effects of treatments

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ObjectivesEvidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Much valuable evidence is in the form of the results from clinical trials that compare the relative merits of treatments. In this paper, we present a new framework for representing and synthesizing knowledge from clinical trials involving multiple outcome indicators.

论文关键词:Computational models of argument,Argument systems,Knowledge aggregation,Evidence aggregation,Evidence-based medicine,Clinical recommendations

论文评审过程:Received 12 September 2011, Revised 20 September 2012, Accepted 22 September 2012, Available online 21 November 2012.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2012.09.004