Leah M. McClimans: Patient-Centered Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine

Ultracrepidarians, explains philosopher Leah McClimans, are overconfident about what they think they know. This makes them, much of the time, probably wrong. What if we are all ultracrepidarians about patient-reported outcome measures? This is the main worry motivating McClimans’ work in her recent book, Patient-Centered Measurement. Her antidotes for ultracrepidarian hubris? Humility and dialogue. In her work, McClimans offers a theory about the quality of the process of measurement of patient reported outcomes (PROMs). Her theory develops how we can establish a dialogue to uncover and challenge our assumptions and improve our understanding of PROMs and the constructs that they aim to measure. …