“Administratively Significant”

Abstract

In an era in which large multiclinic trials are an essential source of new medical knowledge and in which many health professionals have become administrators, the concept of "administratively significant" should be formalized. This concept deals with the problem of convincing members of the medical community that they should act in their own clinical practice in accordance with the results of a valid study. Before this new view is discussed, two older and accepted concepts should be restated.The first is "statistically significant." The accomplishment in pronouncing a finding to be statistically significant is to say that the result is . . .