Formulate, don't formularise
- 2 April 1994
- Vol. 308 (6933) , 905-906
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.308.6933.905
Abstract
Clinicians and pharmacists are hard people. They are taught to think that subjectivity is “woolly.” This leads to a desire to quantify all relevant considerations in a formula in the belief that this somehow makes things objective. This quantification goes on regardless of whether the elements in the way formula overlap (as they do in the case of Bochner et al) and of whether it is in fact theoretically or practically relevant to combine these elements in the way formulas do. …Keywords
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