Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Assessment

Assessment in clinical and health research is the systematic evaluation of a patient's status, a population's needs, or a clinical parameter using structured tools, measurements, and standardised methods to inform diagnosis, management, and decision-making. It encompasses physiological evaluation such as volume and …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 70× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-4488 🗓 Reviewed October 2026

Overview

Assessment in clinical and health research is the systematic evaluation of a patient's status, a population's needs, or a clinical parameter using structured tools, measurements, and standardised methods to inform diagnosis, management, and decision-making. It encompasses physiological evaluation such as volume and hydration status, functional and nutritional measures, risk stratification and mortality scoring, psychological evaluation, and community-level needs assessment, each requiring valid and reliable instruments suited to the question and setting. Effective assessment underpins targeted intervention, monitoring of outcomes, and the equitable allocation of care and resources. Research collected here reflects this breadth, including bedside lung ultrasound for assessing volume status in haemodialysis patients, hand-grip strength and single-point total body water as nutritional and hydration assessment tools, dietary assessment using a mobile application, and community health needs assessment through a cluster-randomised trial. Further contributions examine risk scores for mortality in COVID-19 pneumonia, environmental and health risk assessment of particulate exposure, ecotoxicological and microbiological risk assessment, and psychological and imaging-based assessment in children. Together these peer-reviewed studies span clinical, nutritional, functional, environmental, and population-level assessment, illustrating the methods and tools used to measure health status and risk across diverse contexts.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 70 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Assessment, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Nephrology Advances (ISSN 2574-4488).

Journal editorial board
Ying-Yong Zhao · United States Gilmar Pereira Silva · Brazil Santiago Cuevas · United States

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