What makes a measurement instrument valid and reliable?

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-240

  Scholtes, Vanessa A ^a   Terwee, Caroline B ^b   Poolman, Rudolf W ^a  

^a Joint Research   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinimetrics; Measurement error; Measurement instrument; Measurement properties; Outcome assessment; Reliability; Reproducibility of results; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79751524148     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.11.042     Document Type: Article

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