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Discussion SAMUEL W. GREENHOUSE Biometrics Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. EVERY survey, study, or experiment begins with a question. What does the investigator primarily want to demonstrate? It is important to state the question explicitly at the beginning of the study. We are all familiar with the paper which starts out in describing how things were done, methods that were used, problems that were met, and when we get to the end we are still left with the wonder as to what the writer was trying to prove. It is particularly important to keep in mind the basic question, especially in studies which cover a relatively long period of time. Continual contact with unforeseen problems and details and with numerical data that are being gathered tends to stimulate questions which the study was never designed to answer. I should like to point out in connection with multiple screening programs that these broad, over-all surveys may be suffering from just this very matter. The basic question here is: As a casefinding technique, what is the proportion of diseased individuals picked up but not already known to the physicians? A corollary would be: Is this proportion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

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Samuel W. Greenhouse
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 41 (8 Pt 2) – Aug 1, 1951
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SAMUEL W. GREENHOUSE Biometrics Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. EVERY survey, study, or experiment begins with a question. What does the investigator primarily want to demonstrate? It is important to state the question explicitly at the beginning of the study. We are all familiar with the paper which starts out in describing how things were done, methods that were used, problems that were met, and when we get to the end we are still left with the wonder as to what the writer was trying to prove. It is particularly important to keep in mind the basic question, especially in studies which cover a relatively long period of time. Continual contact with unforeseen problems and details and with numerical data that are being gathered tends to stimulate questions which the study was never designed to answer. I should like to point out in connection with multiple screening programs that these broad, over-all surveys may be suffering from just this very matter. The basic question here is: As a casefinding technique, what is the proportion of diseased individuals picked up but not already known to the physicians? A corollary would be: Is this proportion

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Published: Aug 1, 1951

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