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Galileo, a leader in the Scientific Revolution that followed the hyper-religiosity and doctrinaire thinking of the Middle Ages, was a champion of reasoning. Ideally, of course, reasoning is based on observed facts—data—and medicine science’s best format for data presentation and analysis today is the report of a clinical study.
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Taylor, R.B. (2012). 11 How to Write a Report of a Clinical Study. In: Medical Writing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8234-6_11
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