Practice question · Multiple choice
Two patients have indistinguishable scans and identical lab results. One rates their quality of life at 80, the other at 30. What does the gap tell you about HRQoL as a measure?
Hints
- If the two columns always agreed, one of them would be redundant. Ask what it means that they do not.
- Which of the two numbers would tell you whether this person can still do their job?
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B. That it measures something the clinical numbers do not contain
Why
A measure earns its place by diverging from the ones you already have. Identical pathology and a 50-point gap means something real is going unrecorded by the scan, and it is the half the patient actually lives in.
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