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clinimetrics.

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

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noun
  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.

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Where this word comes from

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

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