Erratum for “Claude Bernard was a 19th century proponent of medicine based on evidence” [J Clin Epidemiol 59 (2006) 1150–1154]
2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 60; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.02.003
ISSN1878-5921
Autores Tópico(s)Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
ResumoClaude Bernard was born in 1813, in Saint Julien, a small town in the Rhône Department and the Beaujolais region and not in “Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, a small town on the Rhône river” as erroneously indicated in the paper. Claude Bernard was born in 1813, in Saint Julien, a small town in the Rhône Department and the Beaujolais region and not in “Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, a small town on the Rhône river” as erroneously indicated in the paper. Claude Bernard was a 19th century proponent of medicine based on evidenceJournal of Clinical EpidemiologyVol. 59Issue 11PreviewThe French physiologist Claude Bernard (1813–1878) has the unfair reputation of being ferociously opposed to the use of probabilities and statistics in medicine. In the 19th century, he would have been included among those who opposed the emergence of what would eventually become clinical epidemiology. The truth is that Bernard valued the role of medical statistics in clinical medicine but viewed it as potentially misleading in laboratory-based physiology. He posited that clinical medicine had to be guided by probabilistic evidence as long as physiological mechanisms remained unknown. Full-Text PDF
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