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Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is applied in many physical and mental health treatments. The treatment course is monitored with patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). A potential problem with PROM is response burden. This can be decreased by presenting such measures with less and better selected items. The SCL‐90‐R is an often used PROM for psychotherapies and a number of very short forms have been developed; the SCL‐5, SCL‐8, SCL‐9 and SCL‐10. This study aims to develop a new very short form, the symptom checklist 3 out of 7 (SCL‐3/7) and to evaluate the effectiveness of these PROM with the precision relative to the complete SCL‐90‐R score.