An Additional Basic Science for Clinical Medicine: IV. The Development of Clinimetrics

摘要: The domain of clinimetrics is concerned with quantitative methods in the collection and analysis comparative clinical data, particularly improved "measurement" distinctively personal phenomena patient care. main requirement for scientific quality data a consistent, reproducible process observation expression. This can be attained appropriate attention to basic descriptive activities operational criteria that convert raw descriptions into variables, categories, composite aggregates suitably chosen clinimetric scales. For this work, clinicians will challenged "dissect" stipulate components decisions are now made unspecified or judgments. Clinimetric science provides opportunities new approaches, sites, personnel an additional type investigation augment basis practice, while rehumanizing contents research restoring analytic emphasis art