Causality at the dawn of the 'omics' era in medicine and in nephrology

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1381-1385

  Zoccali, Carmine ^a   Brancaccio, Diego ^b   Nathan, Marco J ^c  

^a BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

causality; dispositionalism; empiricism; Hume; manipulability theory; randomized trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIGENETICS; ERADICATION THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NEPHROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); CAUSALITY; DISEASE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE;

CAUSALITY; DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; NEPHROLOGY; PRECISION MEDICINE; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84994852201     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfw032     Document Type: Article

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