Practice question · Multiple choice
Two patients with identical diagnoses and identical lab results report very different quality of life. What does that dissociation show?
Hints
- Ask what else differs between two people with the same test results.
- The construct is not a clinical one.
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A. That quality of life is subjective and multidimensional
Why
The dissociation is the finding, not noise. It is why patient-reported outcomes are collected separately from clinical ones rather than inferred from them.
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