--- Franklin Valier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A case study is usually viewed in
> research circles as
> just that. Not nearly as valuable as empirical
> controlled studies.
This is generally true. However doing a study of this
nature is not so simple and the planning of a
controlled study will make things pretty complicated.
The lack of similar studies makes it even more
difficult.
Several simple studies on this nature may give us
sufficient information to plan out an empirical
controlled study, as you yourself point out.
> Sometime they lead investigators into areas
> of further exploration.
Nandalal
>
> Frank Valier
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Antas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <openhealth-list@minoru-development.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Attitudes of hospital workers towards
> electronic medical
> records
>
>
> >
> > Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> >> This is another example of garbage in = garbage
> out. I can't understand
> >> how studies like this with a sample size of one,
> are allowed to be
> >> published in what appears to be a "scholarly
> journal".
> >
> > I am sure that if you provide a better study with
> a lot more samples they
> > will be glad to publish it.
> > > I have often questioned the quality of peer
> review in academic
> > medical informatics
> >> because of articles like this one...
> >
> > I wonder, were they simply praising and/or
> glorifying a new EHR/CPOE,
> > would you be so critical?
> >
> > The aeronautical industry only started to get
> really safe and reliable
> > after they started to exhaustively study all their
> accidents and/or
> > non-expected events.
> >
> >> This combined with the software industry's legacy
> business model and
> >> marketing are the greatest enemies for innovation
> in health care IT....
> >
> > I would rather say that the worst enemy is failing
> to see the human factor
> > and the social issues as the main causes for
> Clinical IT failure.
> >
> > In healthcare I tend to agree with the Nicholas G.
> Carr's "IT Doesn't
> > Matter" principle.
> > Seen at that light a Clinical IT system is not
> really different from using
> > a stethoscope or an ultrasonagraph. They are all
> limited means to reach a
> > common end: to better help other human beings.
> >
> > > feel free to add more to the list.
> >
> > Fear not, I guess that my freedom has not being
> menaced yet.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > J. Antas
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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