kliniska

Kliniska is the Swedish adjective meaning clinical, used to describe things related to patient care, medical research, and activities conducted in clinical settings such as clinics or hospitals. It is commonly placed before plural nouns, for example kliniska prövningar (clinical trials), kliniska data (clinical data), and kliniska riktlinjer (clinical guidelines). In singular form, the corresponding adjectives are klinisk (before a singular common noun, as in klinisk prövning) and clinically used forms like kliniskt when describing adverbially or neuter contexts.

The term appears across medical and health sciences, including medicine, nursing, psychology, and health services research, as well as in education and hospital administration. It generally marks distinctions between work and findings derived from real patient care versus laboratory or preclinical work, with preklinisk used for preclinical research conducted outside the clinical setting.

Etymology and relations: Kliniska derives from the same roots as the English clinical, ultimately tracing to Greek klinikos, meaning bed-related or pertaining to the bedside, via Latin clinicus. In Swedish, the word is integrated into standard medical and scientific vocabulary and pairs with related terms such as klinik (clinic), klinisk prövning (clinical trial), and kliniska riktlinjer (clinical guidelines). The distinction between klinisk and preklinisk helps clarify whether evidence comes from bedside practice or laboratory studies.