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01-08-2003 | World Progress in Surgery

Invited Commentary

Author: Douglas K. Martin, Ph.D.

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 8/2003

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As research agendas are forged to improve care, we are confronted with important questions: What do we need to know? How do we acquire this knowledge? Two areas of investigation that have the experiences of patients at their core—decision making regarding treatments and the experiences of patients and families—are obvious foci for research on the “basic science” of care, but they involve complex social phenomena. To explore and understand these phenomena, we must get beyond the numbers, hypotheses, and statistics to ask “What is going on here?” …

Title: Invited Commentary
Author: Douglas K. Martin, Ph.D.
Publication date: 01-08-2003
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 8/2003
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-003-1019-1

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