How to Consider Evidence of Mechanisms: An Overview [chapter]

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P. Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw, Jon Williamson
2018 Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine  
This chapter introduces how to assess evidence of mechanisms, explaining a summary protocol for use of evidence of mechanisms in assessing efficacy, then external validity (developed theoretically in Part III, with tools for implementation offered in Part II).
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94610-8_3 fatcat:h6l6bphwh5a57mjivkxbb5d4dy