Jupiter Daniel C
Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine; and Research Scientist I, Scott and White Memorial Clinic and Hospital, Temple, TX.
J Foot Ankle Surg. 2014 May-Jun;53(3):388-9. doi: 10.1053/j.jfas.2013.06.002. Epub 2013 Jun 13.
Medical literature comes in all shapes and sizes, from animal studies to prospective clinical trials to retrospective chart reviews. In all of these cases, it is worth asking: What are the intellectual goals of the study: description, hypothesis testing, or hypothesis generating? This differentiation can help shape our view of the success or failure of the scientific effort.
医学文献形式多样，涵盖从动物研究到前瞻性临床试验，再到回顾性病历审查等各个方面。在所有这些情况下，值得一问的是：该研究的学术目标是什么：描述、假设检验还是假设生成？这种区分有助于塑造我们对科研工作成败的看法。
