TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Principles of Measurement A1 - Portney, Leslie G. Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Evidence-Based Practice, 4e AB - Scientists and clinicians use measurement as a way of understanding, evaluating, and differentiating characteristics of people, objects, and systems. Measurement provides a mechanism for achieving a degree of precision in this understanding so that we can describe physical or behavioral characteristics according to their quantity, degree, capacity, or quality. This allows us to communicate in objective terms, giving us a common sense of “how much” or “how little” without ambiguous interpretation. There are virtually no clinical decisions or actions that are independent of some type of measurement. SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1186211233 ER -