When scientific experimentation becomes private, credibility hinges on more abstract criteria: academic affiliation, consensus among other scientists, openness about methodology.
Such abstract criteria however can be modelled using a Bayesian Network (BN), combining expert opinions, empirical evidence and other information such as model simulation, survey etc.
However, this still leaves open the question of how radical such a critique can be, i.e., whether it can only proceed in a context-dependent and peace-meal way or whether the very logic of recognition provides us with more abstract criteria of progress, such as egalitarian inclusion and the recognition of ever more aspects of individuals that fosters their autonomy (Honneth 2003, 184 185).
I hate to think of what might have happened if I had ruled him out because of abstract criteria.
In this paper we will focus mainly on providing and discussing the abstract criteria, but will refrain from citing detailed examples for each criterion because of length limitations.
The conceptual source of uncertainty was the problem of prioritising patients and the difficulty in applying abstract criteria to concrete, and often complex, situations.
In fact, the abstract criteria concerning physicians' explanations to patients are likely not useful to health professionals engaged in medical practice.
For each conference abstract and its corresponding full paper publication, CONSORT abstract criteria for all randomized (Additional file 1: Appendix 1), controlled trials and STROBE for all observational studies (Additional file 1: Appendix 2) were applied.
We separately abstracted criteria for treatment and control groups in trials that tested specific hemodynamic endpoints.
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