Department of Biostatistics in Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Jul;21(7):589-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.03.011.
The quality of all clinical decision-making, as well as power and precision in clinical research results, depends fundamentally on the quality of the measures used. Yet evaluations of the quality of clinical measures likely to be used either in clinic or research applications are difficult to execute or to critique because the criteria for judging such studies are so ill-defined. Here a set of guidelines is proposed, modeled on CONSORT guidelines for randomized clinical trials, first defining the terms often inconsistently used in the research literature and then identifying certain errors that seem to recur in evaluation studies.
所有临床决策的质量，以及临床研究结果的力量和精度，从根本上取决于所使用的测量方法的质量。然而，对于可能在临床或研究应用中使用的临床测量方法的质量评估，由于判断此类研究的标准定义不明确，因此难以执行或批评。这里提出了一套准则，模仿 CONSORT 随机临床试验准则，首先定义研究文献中经常不一致使用的术语，然后确定在评估研究中似乎经常出现的某些错误。
