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Assessments and measurement-based practice

Practical guidance on choosing measures, interpreting scores safely, understanding measurement properties, and using repeated measures in routine care.

How can clinicians use measures as structured evidence without treating scores as diagnoses?

Assessment science

Screening scores are not diagnoses

Why a screening result changes the next question rather than determining a diagnostic conclusion.

3 min readUpdated 13 Jul 2026