See APPENDIX 6: MEASUREMENTS IN MEDICINE.... Medical Dictionary

Measures which describe in words or diagrams rather than using numbers.... Dictionary of Tropical Medicine

Involves the use of non-numerical data, such as those collected in unstructured and in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, participant observation, participatory research, and the study of documents.... Community Health

Measures using numbers to attempt to measure what has occurred.... Dictionary of Tropical Medicine

It is more than a hundred years since the metric system was legalised in Britain, but it was not until 1969 that it became illegal to use any system of weights and measures other than the metric system for dispensing prescriptions.

A rationalisation of the metric system is now used, known as the International System of Units (SI – see APPENDIX 6: MEASUREMENTS IN MEDICINE).... Medical Dictionary