Showing papers by "Stefan Timmermans published in 2021"
TL;DR: This work proposes an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research and illustrates these tactics with a surprising finding in a study of the labor supply decisions of New York City yellow cab drivers.
Abstract: We propose an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research. The advent of computational sociology has exposed the limitations of a deductive logic of inquiry for quantitative researchers due to a lack of traditional sociological variables and an abundance of unfamiliar variables and data formats, complicating hypothesis testing. In response, some researchers have embraced inductive inference, but inductive analysis without theoretical guidance risks producing atheoretical findings. An abductive logic of inquiry rests on developing new theoretical insights based on surprising research results in light of existing theories. In computational sociology, such surprising findings can be cultivated by taking advantage of the analytical potential of scaled-up data and developing flexible analytical and visualization procedures. We illustrate these tactics with a surprising finding in a study of the labor supply decisions of New York City yellow cab drivers.
16 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that although few patients are “demanding” or “requesting” antibiotics, many convey subtle forms of pressure through priming physicians for a bacterial diagnosis in their problem presentations; nudging towards a bacterial diagnoses during information gathering; and resisting non-antibiotic recommendations during the counseling phase.
12 citations
TL;DR: In his account of the medical profession's ascent, Paul Starr drew a distinction between the social authority of physicians and the cultural authority of medicine as mentioned in this paper, between doctors' capacity to direc...
Abstract: In his account of the medical profession’s ascent, Paul Starr drew a distinction between the social authority of physicians and the cultural authority of medicine—between doctors’ capacity to direc...
9 citations
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TL;DR: The social autopsy as discussed by the authors takes the death of a set of individuals as its starting point and then critically and systematically examines social and political conditions to explain these deaths and generate new deaths and deaths.
Abstract: The social autopsy takes the death of a set of individuals as its starting point and then critically and systematically examines social and political conditions to explain these deaths and generate...
2 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on semi-structured interviews with 20 Israeli healthcare professionals and stakeholders involved in communicating the results of genome-wide sequencing to patients and find that the solution to this challenge involves a centralized automated database that is accessible, continuously updated, and facilitates retrospective as well as prospective flagging of reclassification for patients who can benefit from this information.
Abstract: While genomic medicine is becoming an important part of patient care with an ever-increasing diagnostic yield, recontacting patients after reclassification of variants of uncertain clinical significance (VUSs) remains a major challenge. Although periodical reinterpretation of VUSs is highly desired, recontacting former patients with new classifications is commonly not fulfilled in practice. We draw on semi-structured interviews with 20 Israeli healthcare professionals and stakeholders involved in communicating the results of genome-wide sequencing to patients. Findings show agreement that an individual health care professional cannot address the task of recontacting patients after re-classification, and that responsibility should be shared among the medical specialties, laboratory scientists, as well as patients. In the absence of established guidelines, many respondents suggested that the patient should be informed about reclassification during a follow-up contact but they disagreed who should be responsible for informing the patient. HCPs agreed that the solution to this challenge involves a centralized automated database that is accessible, continuously updated, and facilitates retrospective as well as prospective flagging of reclassification for patients who can benefit from this information. National and international policies providing concrete guidelines on the optimal way to recontact patients with new valuable genomic information are needed.
2 citations