This issue has clinical measurement papers that reflect the changing landscape of
clinical measurement in hand therapy and highlights some of the challenges in the
field. Should we continue to develop new outcome measures? When new analytical techniques
identify problems in existing measures, what should be our threshold for changing
an established measure? Can we be confident that if we use a different outcome measure,
we could come to the same conclusion? They are challenging issues that go beyond one
study or any one analytical method. These are issues that I have spent considerable
time thinking about as I have pondered the clinical measurement findings in my own
research program, and in the larger hand therapy scientific community.
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