Abstracts by keywords: anthropologically modest epistemology
The EbM+Theory approach
The health services research community strives for evidence to reduce the uncertainty surrounding our everyday decisions in economics, politics, treatment of illness, and health-promoting care (Soziale Welt Behrens 2015). Holger Pfaff and Jochen Schmitt presented an "EbM+Theory Approach" in 2023 and 2021. As their diagram (2023, p. 3, Figure 1) shows, they assume that there are two separable quality hierarchies of scientific studies: one for "theory-based knowledge" and one for "evidence-based knowledge." "Scientific knowledge" is the result of the combination of both independent knowledge hierarchies.