The disservice of publishing preliminary results based on a premature hypothesis - Semmelweis' ordeal revisited.

Med Health Care Philos · 2025 · PMC12103370 · PMID 39946019

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This could be added to the fact that when both doctors and midwives worked at both clinics there was no difference in mortality rate, but when doctors were allocated only to the First Clinic and midwives only to the Second Clinic, the difference became highly significant (Parusniková 2023 ).

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