Medición en salud: Algunas consideraciones metodológicas / Some methodological issues about measurements in health
Rev. méd. Chile
; 136(1): 125-130, ene. 2008.
Article
em Es
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| ID: lil-483229
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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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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Projetos de Pesquisa
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Pesquisa Biomédica
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Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Chile
País de publicação:
Chile