ALVAN R. FEINSTEIN, M.D., F.A.C.P.
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INTRODUCTION
PROGNOSTIC DISTINCTIONS
INDEX OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
CORRELATED PROGNOSTIC STRATIFICATION
THE ASSESSMENT OF CO-MORBIDITY
POPULATIONAL TRANSFERS
INVESTIGATOR'S CHOICE OF TEMPORAL DEMARCATIONS
DECISIONS MADE BY PATIENTS AND DOCTORS
TAXONOMIC LOGISTICS
NONCLINICAL PRINCIPLES
"CONTROL" TREATMENT
DOUBLE-BLIND TECHNIQUE
RANDOM ALLOCATION
SUMMARY
Perhaps the most striking intellectual change in modern treatment has been its frequent conversion from an act of clinical medicine to an act of statistics.
Reports that lack appropriate statistical analysis will regularly be rejected today by the editors of leading medical journals; various papers in contemporary medical literature recurrently provide instructive discussions of statistical principles useful
FEINSTEIN AR. Clinical Epidemiology: III. The Clinical Design of Statistics in Therapy. Ann Intern Med. 1968;69:1287–1312. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-69-6-1287
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1968;69(6):1287-1312.
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-69-6-1287
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