Bright's disease, nephritis and arterio-sclerosis - A contribution to the history of medical statistics
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Greenwood, M; Russsell, WT
刊物名称：
BIOMETRIKA
ISSN/ISSBN：
0006-3444
发表日期：
1938
页码：
249276
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摘要：
Bright''s disease was chosen for study, partly because it is of interest in itself, partly as a characteristic example of a recorded rate of mortality in which it was a priori certain that changes of opinion had been an important factor of statistical variation. It seems that the statistical data of different generations cannot, by any practicable reclassification, be rendered sufficiently comparable to permit of any sound inferences as to whether the factors favoring Bright''s disease did really increase or decrease through the last 60 yrs. By 1921-3 a sufficient degree of uniformity in practice of certification had been reached to admit of statistical study of group mortality rates having some etiological significance. The data of our own time will repay analysis by medical statistician. A medico-statistical analysis of hospital data, bringing the clinical and personal particulars into still closer relation with the histo-pathological data, now so far more complete than in former times, would be of great value.