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Do theories make knowledge more understandable?

When learning about a new or complex area, it is often difficult to know where to start to make sense of different observations, to identify which components are important, and how to link similar things together. Knowledge itself is often

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Posted in behaviour, change, improvement, information, theories, thinking

What is evidence?

Over the last 20 years, in the world of evidence-based health care, there are running debates about what constitutes evidence and hidden assumptions in the way the word evidence is used.  In defining this word, it is important to recognise

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Posted in clinical practice, definition, evidence, evidence-based health care, information, using research