Alvan Feinstein
Alvan Feinstein · Science & Medicine
Physician regarded as a founder of clinical epidemiology and clinimetrics.
1925, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — 2001, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
United States
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Feinstein, an American physician of Jewish background trained in mathematics before medicine, is regarded as a father of clinical epidemiology. At Yale he insisted that clinical judgment be studied with the same rigor as laboratory science, coining 'clinimetrics' for the measurement of clinical phenomena. His books reshaped how doctors reason about diagnosis, prognosis and the evidence behind treatment.
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Physician regarded as a founder of clinical epidemiology and clinimetrics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
