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The Shouldice Method: an expert’s consensus
Hernia, 2022Hernia repairs are a commonly performed surgical procedure and the Shouldice Repair of inguinal hernias has been well described before in terms of its outcomes. However, the purpose of this paper was to understand what experts from Shouldice Hospital consider to be the essential steps to the Shouldice Method.Utilizing a Delphi Methodology, surgeons at ...
Marguerite Mainprize +3 more
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Experts and Consensus in Social Science
2014This book brings together the research of philosophers and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address, and, possibly, bring solutions to social problems.
Marcel Boumans, Carlo Martini
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Consensus in a multi-expert system
Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation - CSC '90, 1990Most existing expert systems contain a single rule base. Any extension of this model to group decision-making must account for the possibility of conflicting rules encoded by different group members. The inability to reconcile conflicts, however, is one of the most clearly established shortcomings of rule-based knowledge representations [4] [11]. Thus,
Bruce Abramson, Keung-Chi Ng
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Introduction: Experts and Consensus in Social Science
2014The ideals of science as objectivity and consensus are - unsurprisingly - not so easy to attain in scientific practice. Science is ultimately a product of individual scientists with their own personal backgrounds and experiences, and there is no unique methodology to de-personalize and objectify knowledge.
C. Martini, M. Boumans
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Consensus among Experts: The Unholy Grail
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 19765 different medications among them oral contraceptives were submitted to a varied group of doctors for judgment as to their risks and efficacy. The groups differed in their judgments of each of the medications. This is true because: 1) doctors in different practices differ in their exposure to conditions and patients; 2) there are variations in ...
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Evaluating Experts’ Consensus on Behavioral Principles
Perspectives on Behavior ScienceOver the history of our field, scholars have emphasized the critical importance that behavioral principles play in applied behavior analysis, underlining their central position as the foundation on which the field is built. Therefore, behavior analysts must have a robust comprehension of behavioral principles to be conceptually systematic, starting ...
Raymond G. Miltenberger +1 more
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Experts Issue Hyponatremia Consensus
The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2005openaire +2 more sources
Expert consensus on gestational diabetes mellitus
Diabetes & Metabolism, 2010openaire +3 more sources