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1. from The Lancet, about medication research 2. iceberg principle www.peoplewho.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 10:20:06 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: from The Lancet, about medication research Over 20 years ago, the psychiatrist Egon Haberfellner attempted to recruit patients for a planned clinical trial of antidepressant medication from his community practice. He discovered that only one of the 216 patients with depression that he treated over a 6-month period in his clinic was eligible to participate. As a diplomatic understatement, he concluded that "study results obtained under restrictive inclusion and exclusion criteria are probably only applicable to a proportion of patients treated under routine conditions". http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30512-6/fulltext Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 10:22:09 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: iceberg principle Observation that in many (if not most) cases only a very small amount (the 'tip') of information is available or visible about a situation or phenomenon, whereas the 'real' information or bulk of data is either unavailable or hidden. The principle gets its name from the fact that only about 1/10th of an iceberg's mass is seen outside while about 9/10th of it is unseen, deep down in water. Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/iceberg-principle.html Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 30 Dec 2017 to 2 Jan 2018 (#2018-1) ********************************************************
