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clinimetrics

clinimetrics noun: a methodological discipline concerned with the development and application of various instruments (indices, rating scales, etc.) to measure symptoms, signs, and other clinical outcomes.

Noun

clinimetrics (uncountable)

  1. A methodological discipline concerned with the development and application of various instruments (indices, rating scales, etc.) to measure symptoms, signs, and other clinical outcomes.

Forms of clinimetrics

alternative formclinemetrics

Origin of clinimetrics

From clini(cal) + -metrics, by analogy with biometrics, psychometrics, econometrics, etc. Coined by American epidemiologist Alvan Feinstein in a 1982 paper in Circulation.

Questions about clinimetrics

What does clinimetrics mean?
Clinimetrics means a methodological discipline concerned with the development and application of various instruments (indices, rating scales, etc.) to measure symptoms, signs, and other clinical outcomes.
What part of speech is clinimetrics?
Clinimetrics is a noun.

Words near clinimetrics in the dictionary

  1. clinics
  2. clinid
  3. clinids
  4. clinimetric
  5. clinimetrically
  6. clinimetrics
  7. clinique
  8. cliniques
  9. clinitian
  10. clinition
  11. clinium

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