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Published in: Patient Safety in Surgery 1/2014

Open Access 01-12-2014 | Letter to the Editor

Dynamic diagnostic relationism: a new diagnostic paradigm for complex rapidly changing clinical conditions

Author: Lawrence A Lynn

Published in: Patient Safety in Surgery | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

Decades of large, apparently well-designed clinical trials have failed to generate reproducible results in the investigation of many complex rapidly evolving and changing conditions such as sepsis. One possibility for the failure is that 20th century threshold science may be too simplistic to apply to complex rapidly changing conditions, especially those with unknown times of onset. There is an acute need to reconsider the fundamental validity of the application of simple threshold science in the study of complex rapidly evolving and changing conditions. In this letter, four potential axioms are presented which define a new science which assesses the probability of disease as a function of motion images of all the available clinical data.
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Metadata
Title
Dynamic diagnostic relationism: a new diagnostic paradigm for complex rapidly changing clinical conditions
Author
Lawrence A Lynn
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Patient Safety in Surgery / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1754-9493
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-8-21

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