Clinical Outcome Assessment Construct Validation

**Semantic type:** Quantitative Concept

**Definition:** A performance outcome measure that assesses, using quantitative methods, the degree to which the relationships among items, domains, and concepts of a clinical outcome assessment conform to a priori hypotheses concerning logical relationships that should exist with other measures of characteristics of patients and patient groups.

**Synonyms:** - construct validation (COA) - construct validation (re COA)