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hierarchy of evidence

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hierarchy of evidence,
n the sequence of scientific evidence; a means of judging evidence presented in medical literature. Criteria for judging include how the clinical subjects were selected, the nature of the control group, the means by which the data were collected, and how the statistics were analyzed. See also medicine, evidence-based.
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