[Logical structure of the problem oriented clinical record. A combined Popper-Bayes approach].

The problem-oriented medical record is a tool whose correct compilation meets the requirements of the law as well as the need for continuing medical education within the logic of clinical decision making. The reading of the contents of a record allows people to evaluate the correspondence between the "thinking" and the "doing" of a doctor, as well the objectivity of the facts--that is, the truth related to the reasons for a patient's admission to hospital and the nature of his or her illness. To this aim, the authors suggest a structural logical iter in concordance with the lines of hypothetical-deductive epistemology, in contrast to inductive epistemology, as tradition has always suggested.