Clinimetrics and Clinical Psychometrics: Macro- and Micro-Analysis
Author(s) -
Elena Tomba,
Per Bech
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
psychotherapy and psychosomatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.531
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1423-0348
pISSN - 0033-3190
DOI - 10.1159/000341757
Subject(s) - psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , rating scale , statistic , perspective (graphical) , clinical practice , medicine , developmental psychology , statistics , physical therapy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Clinimetrics was introduced three decades ago to specify the domain of clinical markers in clinical medicine (indexes or rating scales). In this perspective, clinical validity is the platform for selecting the various indexes or rating scales (macro-analysis). Psychometric validation of these indexes or rating scales is the measuring aspect (micro-analysis).
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