Medición en salud: Algunas consideraciones metodológicas / Some methodological issues about measurements in health
Rev. méd. Chile
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136(1): 125-130, ene. 2008.
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en Español
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ABSTRACT
Measurement process is a part of everyday work of health professionals. Technological advances have created precise and sensitive instruments whose results are highly accurate and cast little doubts. However, health care has diversified, becoming a multidimensional and complex task. This means that new aspects, that are difficult to measure, must be addressed, such as health perception by patients or cost usefulness ratios of health actions. Therefore, clinicians and researchers must have a good perception of the quality of measures that they use in their daily work, to make the correct diagnostic, therapeutic or prognostic decisions. This article explores the operational concepts that help in the development and assessment of measuring instruments in terms of validity and truthfulness.
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Asunto principal:
Proyectos de Investigación
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Investigación Biomédica
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Estudios de Evaluación como Asunto
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
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Estudios de evaluación
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Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina
Año:
2008
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Chile
Institución/País de afiliación:
Universidad de La Frontera/CL
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