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Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society
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Covid-19 research made it painfully clear that the scandal of poor medical research, as denounced by Altman in 1994, persists today. The overall quality of medical research remains poor, despite longstanding criticisms. The problems are well known, but the research community fails to properly address them. We suggest that most problems stem from an underlying paradox: although methodology is undeniably the backbone of high-quality and responsible research, science consistently undervalues met...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.05.018
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 138
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 219-226
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-25
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1878-5921
- ISSN:
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0895-4356
- Pmid:
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34077797
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English
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1182768
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pubs:1182768
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2021-10-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Van Calster et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- ©2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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