Sound medical-scientific evidence

According to subsection 5AB(2), information about a particular kind of [glossary:injury:315], [glossary:disease:603], or death is taken to be sound medical evidence if the information:

• is consistent with material relating to medical science that has been published in a medical or scientific publication and has been, in the opinion of the [glossary:RMA:640], subjected to a peer review process, or
• in accordance with generally accepted medical practice, would serve as the basis for the diagnosis and management of medical condition.

Information about how that kind of injury, disease or death may be caused must meet the applicable criteria for assessing causation currently applied in the field of [glossary:epidemiology:647].