EvidenceCertaintyType

Evidence Certainty Type

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The aspect of quality, confidence, or certainty.

Metadata

hl7.org/fhir
Canonical URL
http://hl7.org/fhir/certainty-type
All-Codes Value Set
http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/certainty-type
ID
certainty-type
Version
5.0.0
Publisher
HL7 (FHIR Project)
Case Sensitive
Yes
In the unified registry

Concepts (9)

Overall
Overall certainty
Overall certainty of evidence (quality of evidence).
RiskOfBias
Risk of bias
methodologic concerns reducing internal validity.
Inconsistency
Inconsistency
concerns that findings are not similar enough to support certainty.
Indirectness
Indirectness
concerns reducing external validity.
Imprecision
Imprecision
fuzzy or wide variability.
PublicationBias
Publication bias
likelihood that what is published misrepresents what is available to publish.
DoseResponseGradient
Dose response gradient
higher certainty due to dose response relationship.
PlausibleConfounding
Plausible confounding
higher certainty due to risk of bias in opposite direction.
LargeEffect
Large effect
higher certainty due to large effect size.