Medicine and the McNamara fallacy
The ‘McNamara fallacy’ (also known as quantitative fallacy) is named after the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. The fallacy consists of over-reliance on metrics, and may be summarised as: ‘if it cannot be measured, it is not important’. This paper describes the McNamara fallacy as it...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
2017-09-01
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| Series: | The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
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| Online Access: | https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_47_3_omahony.pdf |