Franklin Valier wrote: > Perhaps you are right. The limitations you point out are indeed very > significant. However when an individual reads a case study and comes to > the conclusion that this is a major contribution to the development of > knowledge about the subject in question, it needs to be pointed out that > it is just a case study and where case studies fall within the scope of > scientific investigations.
With any study, one needs to consider how generalisable it is. Even though the study in question is based on a single hospital, its results are probably generalisable to similar hospitals in Norway implementing the same information system in the same way. And partially generalisable to to similar hospitals in other countries implementing the same or similar information system in the same or similar ways. Tim C
