ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2009
What counts as empirical research in bioethics and where do we find the stuff?
Article in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2023Article
- The Is-Ought Problem in Practical Ethics.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2017Article
- Analysing key influences over actors' use of evidence in developing policies and strategies in Nigeria: a retrospective study of the Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health strategy.Health research policy and systems · 2016Article
- Individual breast cancer risk assessment in underserved populations: integrating empirical bioethics and health disparities research.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2012Article
- Respect for cultural diversity and the empirical turn in bioethics: a plea for caution.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2012Article
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Registered trials
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