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Preparatory to gnostic clinical research is, quite importantly, familiarity with and secure internalization of certain core concepts of epidemiology and of research for the advancement of its practice. These concepts, like their counterparts in clinical medicine, are, still, less than satisfactory in their general stage of development. They, too, therefore need to be approached with the critical mind-set that is a prerequisite for learning and internalizing the general theory of clinical medicine (by self-study of a recent book; Sect. 4.2.2) and, subordinate to this, the general theory of gnostic clinical research that provides the knowledge-base for genuinely scientific medicine (cf. Sect. 3.3). We provide here a critical introduction to the core concepts of epidemiology and epidemiological research, ones that are preparatory to study specific to gnostic clinical research.
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Miettinen, O.S., Steurer, J., Hofman, A. (2019). Core Concepts of Epidemiology and Epidemiological Research. In: Clinical Research Transformed. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06176-0_5
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