No, because it is based exclusively on negative evidence from a process-of-elimination screen, rather than on positive evidence of mechanistic causation.
Twelve events were ruled out based on negative measles IgM results, evidence indicating other diseases (fifth disease and Kawasaki syndrome), vaccine reaction or inaccurate documentation of clinical symptoms.
Based on negative results, we created SUMSearch TM), an Internet site that automates searching for medical evidence by simultaneous meta-searching of MEDLINE and other sites.
In 2006, it was, based on the negative evidence published till then, concluded that BTX as prophylactic for episodic migraine and tension-type headache had come to the end of the road [130].
Based on the evidence presented, we expect negative affect predicts rumination.
Other countries with older health care legislations, for example, the UK's English-NHS Foundation Act (1946) and Germany's Social Code Book (1988) have rather implicitly defined benefit catalogues, but increasingly work with negative lists, based on evidence provided by independent institutions such as the Englisch NICE and the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency (IQWiG) [ 12, 17].
Based on the evidence in the literature we hypothesize that first, spasticity early in life has a negative relationship with gross motor development.
Using simulations based on empirical evidence, we show that under broad assumptions this rule would generate large competitive gains while having very limited negative effects on diversification and other values.
It would appear that our evidence-based medicine isn't based on very much evidence.
Finally, in the second proposed network we assumed that gene W is self-regulated via a delayed negative feedback loop, based on the experimental evidence reported in [4].
