AR FEINSTEIN - Annals of internal medicine, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians The main scientific virtue of randomized allocation of treatment is an unpredictability that reduces
susceptibility bias in the groups created when treatments are assigned preferentially according
to prognostic differences. Even in randomized trials, however, prognostic analyses are ... Cited by 72 - Related articles - All 4 versions
AR Feinstein - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians The four main conceptual paradigms of basic biomedical research are that the explication of
mechanisms is a primary goal of science; that scientific data must be "hard"; that formulation
of hypotheses and counter-hypotheses is a principal creative challenge; and that ... Cited by 86 - Related articles - All 2 versions
AR FEINSTEIN - Annals of internal medicine, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians The domain of clinimetrics is concerned with quantitative methods in the collection and analysis
of comparative clinical data, and particularly with improved "measurement" of the distinctively
clinical and personal phenomena of patient care. The main requirement for scientific ... Cited by 139 - Related articles - All 3 versions
AR Feinstein - Annals of internal medicine, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians Although highly successful in investigating remedial therapy, randomized clinical trials have
sometimes created rather than clarified controversy when the treatments were given for the complex
problems involved in studying either the primary prevention of disease or the secondary ... Cited by 212 - Related articles - All 3 versions
C Martin, M Nisa - Australian family physician, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov BACKGROUND: Care of children with chronic disease is an important part of general
practice. While the emphasis of management has traditionally been on the biomedical aspects
of ill health categorised by specific medical diagnoses, other dimensions may be ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - All 2 versions
SP Wainwright - Journal of clinical nursing, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov This study explores and describes experiences of chronic liver disease from the patient's
perspective. No qualitative research studies appear to have examined the experiences of these
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K Finkler, M Correa - Social Science & Medicine, 1996 - Elsevier The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to present empirical findings, using data drawn from a comprehensive
two year study of biomedical practice and patients perceptions of treatment and recovery done
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