Research Aims in Clinical Medicine: Description, Identification, or Explanation.

Bos, Daniel; Ikram, M Arfan · World Neurosurg · 2022

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Abstract

Biomedical research can generally be categorized into 1 of 3 aims: describing the occurrence of disease; identifying persons with or at increased risk of disease including diagnostic and prognostic studies; and explaining the occurrence of disease including etiologic and efficacy studies.

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