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Title: Causality in medicine and its relationship with the role of statistics.
Author: Monleón Getino, Toni
Canela i Soler, Jaume
Keywords: Estadística mèdica
Atzar
Epidemiologia
Medicina
Medical statistics
Chance
Epidemiology
Medicine
Issue Date: 24-Feb-2017
Publisher: Science Publishing Group
Abstract: The general goal of this work is the clarification of the use of concepts of causality in medicine and its relationship with the role of statistics. The value of an association is the evidence of causality. The Bradford Hill considerations on causality are the criteria commonly used to infer causality. Statistics help to know the role of chance in the working medical hypotheses but does not prevent other common mistakes made during clinical research, such as biases. Man has found a procedure that removes the most of all subjectivities and external factors: the scientific method, this does not mean that scientific studies are infallible. There are many factors influencing the cure or improvement of a disease that would be take in account: spontaneous resolution, regression to the mean, the Forer effect, placebo effect and other. The subjective observation of these phenomena is often insufficient when it comes to analyzing the effectiveness of therapies, medications, diets, homeopathy, cosmetics and natural therapies. It is very difficult to establish causality in health sciences but not impossible, the principles of this establishement can be resumed as Temporality, Strength, Consistency, Biology, Plausibility, Specificity, Analogy, Experiment and Coherence.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.14
It is part of: Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, 2017, vol. 2, num. 2, p. 61-68
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/111242
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.14
ISSN: 1097-6213
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