The democratic fallacy in matters of clinical opinion: implications for analysing cause-of-death data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Arriving at a consensus between multiple clinical opinions concerning a particular case is a complex issue - and may give rise to manifestations of the democratic fallacy, whereby a majority opinion is misconstrued to represent some kind of "truth" and...

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Main Author: Byass Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
Online Access:http://www.ete-online.com/content/8/1/1