More information on the Open Book is available. Copyright 1993, the National Academy Press. Keywords, machine extracted. Top 50 words repeated twice, next 100 once, plus phrases. As planned, it would involve 160,000 postmenopausal women at 45 clinical centers across the country and many other women residing in the communities that would participate in the Community Prevention Study.
Research is always a gamble, however.
Simply put, if one knew the answer, one would not need to do the research. When NIH undertakes a research project that is as costly and complex as the WHI, it is necessary to maximize the likelihood that the research will yield definitive answers to important health questions. Clear goals, wise reasoning and planning, and funding adequate to the task are all essential to increasing the chances of success. Nagging doubt exists, however, that political concerns influenced the design, timetable, and budget of the study. The task of this committee is to respond to the concerns of the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives over the study's design, its concomitant cost, and the probability that the WHI will produce results that will be meaningful to the health of women in the United States.