English Explanatory Dictionary

clinimetrics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

clinimetrics clinemetrics

Etymology

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

Related words

clinimetric
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