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A Conceptual Analysis of the Epistemological Tension Between Positivism and Constructivism in Health Technology Assessment and Impact on Clinical Practice

2026-08-18

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Rationale. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and health technology assessment (HTA) rest on a positivist epistemology in which value is treated as objective, measurable and generalisable across populations. This framing struggles to represent how individual patients construct the meaning and value of health states. Aims and Objectives. To analyse the epistemological tension between positivist and constructivist approa...

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Literature Corpus work: 5704fdb6-2e1b-56e2-943f-e33386454bd6
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.1224.v1

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