T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. The Jones criteria and the challenges of clinimetrics.

Abstract

THE MEDICAL IMMORTALITY of being commemorated with an eponym has been achieved by physi- cians and pathologists who discover or describe some ailment, such as Addison's disease and von Reckling- hausen's disease, and by surgeons who have invented operative procedures and instruments. For T. Duckett Jones, an eponymic title was attained with a different achievement: He created a set of rules for making an intellectual decision.