The terminology conflict on efficacy and effectiveness in healthcare
Designers and architects created the rule ‘form follows function (FFF)’ for their own profession. Our paper demonstrates that this FFF rule applies equally well to the designers of clinical studies. Four examples present are as follows: disregarding this FFF rule causes an inconsistent terminology t...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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14 December 2020
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Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 17, Pages: 1171-1178 |
| ISSN: | 2042-6313 |
| DOI: | 10.2217/cer-2020-0149 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.2217/cer-2020-0149 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://becarispublishing.com/doi/10.2217/cer-2020-0149 
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| Author Notes: | Franz Porzsolt, Felicitas Wiedemann, Meret Phlippen, Christel Weiss, Manfred Weiss, Karen Schmaling & Robert M Kaplan |
| Summary: | Designers and architects created the rule ‘form follows function (FFF)’ for their own profession. Our paper demonstrates that this FFF rule applies equally well to the designers of clinical studies. Four examples present are as follows: disregarding this FFF rule causes an inconsistent terminology to differentiate between efficacy and effectiveness, inconsistent differentiation of efficacy and effectiveness interferes with the consistent interpretation of the results of clinical studies, inconsistent interpretation of clinical studies results in an unexpectedly variance of recommendations in clinical guidelines and the fusion of the FFF designer rule and of the demands of Cochrane and Bradford Hill (‘can it work?’, ‘does it work?’ and ‘is it worth it?’) avoids the terminology problem and its misleading consequences. This strategy is presented. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 17.01.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2042-6313 |
| DOI: | 10.2217/cer-2020-0149 |