The Clinimetrics Working Group
Clinimetrics is a methodological discipline. It focusses on the quality of clinical measurement. Quality of measurement includes both the quality of the measurement instruments and the quality of the performance of the actual measurements (de Vet et al. 2003).
The Clinimetrics group is embedded in the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam UMC. The Clinimetrics group was founded in 2002 by Henrica C.W. de Vet.
Our mission
The Clinimetrics group has the following objectives:
- to promote research on the quality of measurement instruments
- to give courses and to write educational papers on clinimetric issues
- to give advise on the choice of measurement instruments, the development of new ones, and the interpretation of results
The group consists of about 20 investigators from in- and outside Amsterdam UMC, including PhD students, postdocs, and senior researchers and professors. The group convenes once a month to discuss clinimetrics on the basis of its own research, manuscripts in preparation, or methodological papers from the literature.
Example topics to be discussed:
- Quality criteria for studies on measurement properties
- Smallest detectable change and minimal important change
- IRT, item banks, CATs, and PROMIS
- Core Outcome Set development