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Arthur Loewy, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1967;86(5):579-583.

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FOLLOWING major head and neck surgery under hypothermic conditions in a prior study group¹ and in the observations that constitute the experimental phase of this report, a seemingly intangible benefit appeared to accrue to the study group of patients. This could not be measured in terms of wound healing, rate of clinical recovery, or length of hospital stay because of the large source of experimental error in such clinical judgments. Defining the term "error" in the statistical sense makes the point even more obvious; error is the degree to which whatever we measure is influenced by other causes than those which are being investigated² and is a reflection of a good many influences that lie outside the scope of the inquiry at the time of the study. The patients' past health, nature of potential home care, dependency as a basic character and personality trait, and a multitude of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 23, 1967.

This article is a portion of a candidate's thesis presented to the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society.

Reprint requests to Box 6998, Chicago 60680 (Dr. Loewy).

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