Minimal Clinically Important Difference
"Minimal Clinically Important Difference" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A statistically significant minimum set of clinical outcomes that demonstrates a clinical benefit of an intervention or treatment.
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D000071081
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.761.559.590.399.750 N05.715.360.575.575.399.750
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| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Minimal Clinically Important Difference" by people in Profiles.
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Lynch CP, Cha EDK, Jenkins NW, Parrish JM, Nolte MT, Geoghegan CE, Jadczak CN, Mohan S, Singh K. Influence of Preoperative Depressive Burden on Achieving a Minimal Clinically Important Difference Following Lumbar Decompression. Clin Spine Surg. 2022 11 01; 35(9):E693-E697.
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Goh GS, Baker CM, Tarabichi S, Clark SC, Austin MS, Lonner JH. The Paradox of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Should We Prioritize "Feeling Better" or "Feeling Good" After Total Knee Arthroplasty? J Arthroplasty. 2022 09; 37(9):1751-1758.
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Arshi A, Sekimura T, Kelley BV, Zeegen EN, Lonner JH, Stavrakis AI. Navigated and Robot-Assisted Technology in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Do Outcome Differences Achieve Minimal Clinically Important Difference? J Arthroplasty. 2022 08; 37(8):1562-1569.
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Evuarherhe A, Condron NB, Gilat R, Knapik DM, Patel S, Wagner KR, Garrigues GE, Romeo A, Verma N, Cole BJ. Defining Clinically Significant Outcomes Following Superior Capsular Reconstruction With Acellular Dermal Allograft. Arthroscopy. 2022 05; 38(5):1444-1453.e1.
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Su L, Garcia-Mansilla I, Kelley B, Arshi A, Fabricant PD, Sherman SL, Jones KJ. Clinical Outcomes of Meniscal Allograft Transplantation With Respect to the Minimal Clinically Important Difference. Am J Sports Med. 2022 10; 50(12):3440-3446.
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Wagner SC, Nassr A, Freedman BA, Elder BD, Bydon M, Sebastian AS. The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: A pilot study. J Clin Neurosci. 2021 Jun; 88:95-101.
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Hayes DF. Defining Clinical Utility of Tumor Biomarker Tests: A Clinician's Viewpoint. J Clin Oncol. 2021 01 20; 39(3):238-248.
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Manderle BJ, Gowd AK, Liu JN, Beletsky A, Nwachukwu BU, Nicholson GP, Bush-Joseph C, Romeo AA, Forsythe B, Cole BJ, Verma NN. Time Required to Achieve Clinically Significant Outcomes After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair. Am J Sports Med. 2020 12; 48(14):3447-3453.
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McCann AC, Phillips KM, Trope M, Caradonna DS, Gray ST, Sedaghat AR. Characterising the potential for recall bias in anchor-based MCID calculation of patient-reported outcome measures for chronic rhinosinusitis. Clin Otolaryngol. 2020 09; 45(5):768-774.
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Martin RL, Kivlan BR, Christoforetti JJ, Wolff AB, Nho SJ, Salvo JP, Ellis TJ, Van Thiel G, Matsuda D, Carreira DS. Unique Substantial Clinical Benefit Values for the 12-Item International Hip Outcome Tool Based on Preoperative Level of Function. Arthroscopy. 2020 04; 36(4):1033-1038.