THE EFFECTS OF FALLING IN LOVE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
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2 Mukhang Doktor Pero Hindi Doktor
A B S T R A C T
Objectives To determine whether falling in love results in trauma, romance, marriage, pregnancy, or long life.
Design Systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
Data sources Medline, Pubmed, and the Cochrane Library databases.
Study selection Randomized controlled trials showing the free fall effects of falling in love.
Main outcome measures If falling in love is a form of gravitational challenge: Death or major trauma, defined as Glasgow Coma Score of 3. If falling in love results in romance, marriage, pregnancy or long life: Romance, marriage, pregnancy or long life.
Results We were unable to find randomized controlled trials of gravitational challenge posed by falling in love or that of resulting in romance, marriage, pregnancy or long life. (BTW, is it rise in love instead of fall in love?)
Conclusions and Recommendations As with many methods proposed to make life long and worthwhile, falling in love and the efficacy of its use has never been subject to rigorous testing by way of randomized controlled clinical trials. Supporters of evidence-based effects of falling in love have disapproved of the use of studies using only descriptive observational phenomena.
We suggest that everyone participates in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of falling in love.
Haay. In other words, ganito ang binoblog ng mga taong -- you know. Hahaha.
Belated Happy Valentine's Day!
This is my way, way late though never too late entry to Doc Em Dy's TBR 29th ed.: Love.
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3 Responses to THE EFFECTS OF FALLING IN LOVE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
I think love is too much of an individual experience that it cannot be randomized. Each one is a case report. Best that we can possibly have is a case series of similar experiences. There are too many confounding variables.
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naku... baka may reporting bias... mahirap pag-usapanang love na bigo. masakit... hehe
oh doc em, let's just say amidst the thousands of confounding variables, love itself is confounding. we know what love is and yet we don't. hehehe.
hehehe. hi silverfork! glad to meet you. i sense ur a doctor. may md sa site location mo. the reporting bias notwithstanding, maraming entries para kay Joe d'mango.
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