Table 2.

Definitions and types of ClinRO assessments.

ClinRO assessment: Evaluation of patients’ health status reported by trained health care professionals (e.g., physicians, nurses, midwives, and therapists) and requiring specialized professional training to make the assessment

ClinRO reading: Evaluation in which the observed characteristics are reported in a dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) form (e.g., presence or absence of fractures, causal attribution of death)*

ClinRO rating: Evaluation in which the characteristics observed and reported have at least three possible categories or levels that generate scores representing the concept(s) of interest (e.g., Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, the Aronchick Scale in bowel preparation for colonoscopy, and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale in mental disorders)

ClinRO clinician global assessments (clinician global impressions and clinical global impressions of change): Evaluation based on clinicians’ overall judgment(s) of the patient’s total health status, or aspects of their health status for which the variables assessed are poorly defined or undefined.

CGA, clinician global assessment; ClinRO, clinician-reported outcome.

^*An assessment that is dichotomized on the basis of a general and unstated clinician judgment process in which the variables measured are poorly defined or undefined (e.g., decision to prescribe additional medication on the basis of poorly defined “signs and symptoms”) is considered a CGA.