TY  - JOUR
T1  - CLinimetrics and psychometrics work hand in hand
AU  - Feinstein AR
Y1  - 1999/08/09
N1  - 
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1811
EP  - 1817
VL  - 159
IS  - 15
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -