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The Clinical Reasoning Series - How can knowledge of mechanisms inform our clinical decision-making? With Dr Elena Rocca and Dr Saúl Pérez-González

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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Evidence of Mechanisms Can Play a Confirming and a Disconfirming Role

Evidence of mechanisms can play both a confirming and a disconfirming role. The problem is that in most cases, when we dentify a mechanism, it is very difficult to say if two mechanisms are highly similar because we only know part of the mechanisms. For instance, consider the limited knowleds about derelobant mechanisms. But even in that case, we can identify ar relevant difference. And our point is that the problems are so relevant in that case.

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