title: [What is cognition-based medicine?].
abstract: Cognition-based medicine (CBM) is a newly-developed methodological system of scientific medicine. Its primary element is the criteria-based assessment of therapeutic causality at the level of the individual patient. Principles and criteria of single-case causality assessment have been analyzed and explicated. CBM enables a methodological professionalization of clinical judgment, as well as the explication of physician experience and expertise. CBM study designs expand the current range of clinical research, extending from criteria-based causality assessment in single cases to new forms of cohort evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Institut für angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und medizinische Methodologie Bad Krozingen/Freiburg i. Brsg. helmut.kiene@ifaemm.de
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kiene
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*