Alvan Feinstein

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Name: Alvan R. Feinstein, MD

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984

Years: 1926-2001

Degrees: MS, Mathematics University of Chicago 1948; MD, University of Chicago, 1952

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Activities: 1974 became the founding Director of Yale’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, then Director Emeritus

Honors and Awards: Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Yale, 1991; elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Epidemiological Society, the Interurban Clinical Club and the Institute of Medicine; Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American College of Physicians (1982), Robert J. Glaser Annual Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine (1987), J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (1987), Gairdner Foundation (Canada) International Award (1993), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from McGill University (1997)

Other Works:

Other Information:

Curriculum Vitae:

Selected Publications:

Internet Versus Mailed Questionnaires: A Randomized Comparison (2) (2004)
Leece, Pam Bhandari, Mohit Sprague, Sheila Swiontkowski, Marc F Schemitsch, Emil H Tornetta, Pau
l Devereaux, PJ Guyatt, Gordon H
Reviewer: Potts, Henry Reviewer: Schonlau, Matt Reviewer: Lee, Sunghee [This item is a preserved
 copy and is not necessarily the most recent version....

Internet Versus Mailed Questionnaires: A Controlled Comparison (2) (2004)
Leece, Pam Bhandari, Mohit Sprague, Sheila Swiontkowski, Marc F Schemitsch, Emil H Tornetta, Pau
l Devereaux, PJ Guyatt, Gordon H
Reviewer: Potts, Henry Reviewer: Schonlau, Matt Reviewer: Lee, Sunghee [This item is a preserved
 copy and is not necessarily the most recent version....

Internet Versus Mailed Questionnaires: A Randomized Comparison (2) (2004)
Leece, Pam Bhandari, Mohit Sprague, Sheila Swiontkowski, Marc F Schemitsch, Emil H Tornetta, Pau
l Devereaux, PJ Guyatt, Gordon H
Reviewer: Potts, Henry Reviewer: Schonlau, Matt Reviewer: Lee, Sunghee [This item is a preserved
 copy and is not necessarily the most recent version....

Internet Versus Mailed Questionnaires: A Controlled Comparison (2) (2004)
Leece, Pam Bhandari, Mohit Sprague, Sheila Swiontkowski, Marc F Schemitsch, Emil H Tornetta, Pau
l Devereaux, PJ Guyatt, Gordon H
Reviewer: Potts, Henry Reviewer: Schonlau, Matt Reviewer: Lee, Sunghee [This item is a preserved
 copy and is not necessarily the most recent version....

Dr. Feinstein Responds
Feinstein, Alvan R. Chan, Charles K. Esdaile, John M. McFarlane, Michael J. Wells, Carolyn K.

Dr. Feinstein Responds
Feinstein, Alvan R. Chan, Charles K. Esdaile, John M. McFarlane, Michael J. Wells, Carolyn K.

RE: "EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GALLSTONE DISEASE IN ITALY: PREVALENCE DATA OF THE MULTICENTER ITALIAN STUD
Y... (1995)
Feinstein, Alvan R. Wells, Carolyn K.

In-Vivo and Post-Mortem Gallstones: Support for Validity of the "Epidemiologic Necropsy" Screeni
ng... (1991)
Simonovis, Nelson J. F. Wells, Carolyn K Feinstein, Alvan R.
This research was done to evaluate the "epidemiologic necropsy” procedure as a "screening” techn
ique for disease that has been clinically...

An Analysis of Gastric and Oesophageal Cancers Found with 'Epidemiological Necropsy' during... (
1989)
CHAN, CHARLES K JOSEPHY, BRUCE R WELLS, CAROLYN K FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R
Chan C K (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New
 Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA), Josephy B R, Wells C...

Book Reviews (1989)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R

Case-control studies (1989)
MAYES, LINDA C HORWITZ, RALPH I FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R

A Box-Graph Method for Illustrating Relative-Size Relationships in a 2×2 Table (1988)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R KWOH, C KENT
The proportional relationships of the four numbers in a 2�2 table can be displayed using two typ
es of box graphs. In one approach, a 'unitary...

Book Reviews (1988)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

Box-graph method of illustrating relative size relationships in a 2 × 2 table (1988)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R KWOH, C KENT

DETECTION BIAS IN THE DIAGNOSTIC PURSUIT OF LUNG CANCER (1988)
WELLS, CAROLYN K. FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.
Autopsy studies have shown that lung cancer is often not detected during life and that a correct
 antemortem diagnosis is made preferentially in...

RE: "DO PRESSURIZED BRONCHODILATOR AEROSOLS CAUSE DEATH AMONG ASTHMATICS?" (1988)
Esdaile, John M. Feinstein, Alvan R. Horwitz, Ralph I.

Quantitative Ambiguities in Matched versus Unmatched Analyses of the 2x2 Table for a Case-Contro
l... (1987)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R
When controls are individually matched to the cases in a case-control study, the subsequent data
 can be analysed in a matched or unmatched format. If...

Book Reviews (1983)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

THE AUTHORS REPLY (1981)
Horwitz, Ralph I. Feinstein, Alvan R.

ALTERNATIVE DATA SOURCES AND DISCREPANT RESULTS IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES OF ESTROGENS AND... (198
0)
HORWITZ, RALPH I. FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R. STREMLAU, JANE R.
In most case-control studies, little attention has been given to two features that can affect th
e odds ratio: 1) self-selection of the people who are...

Book Reviews (1979)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

HOST FACTORS IN THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF RHEUMATIC PATIENTS TO STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS (1975)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R. SPAGNUOLO, MARIO TARANTA, ANGELO
Feinstein, A. R. (Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06511), M.
 Spagnuolo and A. Taranta. Host factors in the...

Book Reviews (1974)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

Book Reviews (1972)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

Book Reviews (1971)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

II. Treatment and Prevention †
Spagnuolo, Mario Feinstein, Alvan R.

I. Incidence and Significance ‡
Feinstein, Alvan R. Spagnuolo, Mario Gill, Fred A.

Book Reviews (1970)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

In Vivo: The Case for Supramolecular Biology
Feinstein, Alvan R.

Book Reviews (1967)
FEINSTEIN, ALVAN R.

Cybernetic Medicine
Feinstein, Alvan R.

Quality-of-life measurements: origin and pathogenesis.
Prutkin, Jordan M. Feinstein, Alvan R.
Despite extensive growth in recent years, the field of "quality-of-life" appraisal still evokes 
debate about basic perception of the concept and is...

The incorporation of P32 by human erythrocytes : a new index for expressing uptake, and studies 
of... (1952)
Feinstein, Alvan Richard
Thesis (M.D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Medicine. Includes bibliographical reference
s.

Savill's System of Clinical Medicine
Feinstein, Alvan R.

Savill's System of Clinical Medicine
Feinstein, Alvan R.

Scholars, Investigators, and Entrepreneurs: The Metamorphosis of American Medicine (2003)
Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925-
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2003

EXPERIMENTAL REACTIVATION OF SUBSIDING RHEUMATIC FEVER
Feinstein, Alvan R. Spagnuolo, Mario

Vitagliano G, Curtis JP, Concato J, Feinstein AR, Radford MJ, Krumholz HM.
Association between functional status and use and effectiveness of beta-blocker
prophylaxis in elderly survivors of acute myocardial infarction. J Am Geriatr
Soc. 2004 Apr;52(4):495-501. 

Ponce de Leon S, Lara-Muñoz C, Feinstein AR, Wells CK. A comparison of three
rating scales for measuring subjective phenomena in clinical research. II. Use o
f
experimentally controlled visual stimuli. Arch Med Res. 2004
Mar-Apr;35(2):157-62. 

Lara-Muñoz C, De Leon SP, Feinstein AR, Puente A, Wells CK. Comparison of
three rating scales for measuring subjective phenomena in clinical research. I.
Use of experimentally controlled auditory stimuli. Arch Med Res. 2004
Jan-Feb;35(1):43-8. 

Feinstein AR. Scholars, investigators, and entrepreneurs: the metamorphosis of
American medicine. Perspect Biol Med. 2003 Spring;46(2):234-53. 

Feinstein AR. Post-therapeutic response and therapeutic "style":
re-formulating the "placebo effect". J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 May;55(5):427-9.

Feinstein AR. Will clinicians' challenges be solved by another theoretical
model? Commentary on Sweeney & Kernick (2002), Clinical evaluation: constructing
 
a new model for post-normal medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
 
8, 131-138. J Eval Clin Pract. 2002 May;8(2):139-41. 

Feinstein AR. Is "quality of care" being mislabeled or mismeasured? Am J Med. 
2002 Apr 15;112(6):472-8. 

Wilkin J, Dahl M, Detmar M, Drake L, Feinstein A, Odom R, Powell F. Standard
classification of rosacea: Report of the National Rosacea Society Expert
Committee on the Classification and Staging of Rosacea. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2002
 
Apr;46(4):584-7. 

Prutkin JM, Feinstein AR. Quality-of-life measurements: origin and
pathogenesis. Yale J Biol Med. 2002 Mar-Apr;75(2):79-93. Review. 

Lieu JE, Feinstein AR. Effect of gestational and passive smoke exposure on
ear infections in children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Feb;156(2):147-54.

Feinstein AR. The state of the art. JAMA. 1986 Mar 21;255(11):1488.

Horwitz RI, Feinstein AR. Advantages and drawbacks of the Zelen design for
randomized clinical trials. J Clin Pharmacol New Drugs. 1980 Jul;20(7):425-7.

Books

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Clinical biostatistics / Alvan R. Feinstein.
Published/Created: Saint Louis : C. V. Mosby, 1977.
Description:       xii, 468 p. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:              0801615631

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Clinical epidemiology : the architecture of clinical research / Alvan R. Feinstein.
Published/Created: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Co., 1985.
Description:       xii, 812 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:              072161308X

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Clinical judgment [by] Alvan R. Feinstein.
Published/Created: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1967.
Description:       vii, 414 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes:             Bibliography: p. 391-400.

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Clinimetrics / Alvan R. Feinstein.
Published/Created: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1987.
Description:       xi, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:              0300038062 (alk. paper)

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Multivariable analysis : an introduction / Alvan R.
                      Feinstein.
Published/Created: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1996.
Description:       xvi, 613 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. +1 computer disk(3 1/2 in.)
ISBN:              0300062990

Personal name:     Feinstein, Alvan R., 1925- 
Main title:        Principles of medical statistics / Alvan R. Feinstein.
Portion of title:  Medical statistics
Published/Created: Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2002.
Description:       701 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:              1584882166 (alk. paper)

Additional Media:

Sources:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/bio.asp?id=224

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article_print.aspx?id=3234

http://news.yale.edu/2001/10/30/memoriam-yale-expert-clinical-research-methods-a lvan-r-feinstein