Thus, for commonly used assessments, investigations are needed to determine a standardized change index, the amount of change exceeding error estimates (minimal detectable change or MDC), and the amount of change shown to make a clinically relevant difference (clinically important difference or CID).
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Tumors exhibiting a detectable but faint immunostaining were scored as weak (1+), whereas tumors with a minimal, hardly detectable or missing staining pattern were classified as phospho-ERK1/2-negative (0).
Distribution based approaches include minimal detectable change (MDC) or standardized response mean (SRM), while anchor based approaches include minimal clinically important difference (MCID) or minimal important change (MIC) [ 2, 3].
The definition of clinically significant changes in motion (such as minimal clinically important difference [MCID]; minimal detectable change [MDC]) or minimal acceptable motion (such as patient acceptable symptom state [PASS]) for joint range of motion is not well established within the literature.
34 We are not aware of data describing minimal clinical important differences or minimal detectable changes for this scale.
In the present review, calculations of the 95% limits of agreement (LoA), standard error of measurement (SEM), smallest detectable change (SDC) or minimal detectable change (MDC) were considered sufficient.
In this study the MDC, also referred to as minimal detectable difference [ 38] or repeatability coefficient [ 45, 47], was found by using formula MDC = SEM x 1.96 x √2 [ 4, 40, 45].
Finally, all the cutoff estimates, reflecting a substantial amount of change, were considerably larger than previously reported estimates of measurement error or minimal detectable change (Grotle et al. 2004).
This minimum change is referred to as the minimal detectable change (MDC) [ 5- 7] or smallest detectable change (SDC) [ 4, 8, 9] and is mathematically (linearly) related to the error of the measurement.
