RT Journal
A1 Feinstein AR
T1 CLinimetrics and psychometrics work hand in hand
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1999
FD August 9
VO 159
IS 15
SP 1811
OP 1817
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
I thank Drs Zyzanski and Perloff for their complimentary remarks, and particularly for their open acknowledgment, as psychometric authorities, that "clinical knowledge" and "the essential ingredient of clinical insight" are important for appraising the "complex intangible phenomena" of patient care. This acknowledgment has not always occurred during the "blind application of the statistical or psychometric approach" when multi-item instruments were initially constructed for complex clinical phenomena, or when credulous clinicians used and gave obeisance to the instruments.