Sentence examples for minimum important changes from inspiring English sources

Future studies should focus on determining the responsiveness and the minimum important changes (MIC) needed in the WOSI.

To fully interpret our agreement analyses, the SEMs and MDCs need to be compared to minimum important changes, rated by patients' opinion, which can be performed in responsiveness analyses [ 25].

One study of responsiveness found a high standardized response mean (SRM 1.12) for the PCS, suggesting that the PCS can capture change over time, but no analyses of minimum important changes were performed [ 36].

The values proposed for the minimum important change of ODI are a reduction of 10 points, or a decrease of 30% compared to the initial value [4].

This study investigated the responsiveness and the minimum important change of the ODI-I on a sample of 151 SPL patients who attended a physical therapy program.

As observed by Lauridsen et al. [23], an increase of 25% in ODI baseline score provokes a 12-point augmentation in the minimum important change of this measure.

The changes in ODI-I scores are in line with the values proposed for the minimum important change by Ostelo et al. [4], i.e., a reduction of 10 points, or a decrease of 30% compared to baseline.

The objective of this study is to examine the responsiveness and the minimum important change of the ODI-I in Italian subjects with symptomatic specific LBP associated with lumbar SPL undergoing a physical therapy program.

This study aims to investigate the responsiveness and the minimum important change of the Italian version of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI-I) in subjects with symptomatic specific low back pain associated with lumbar spondylolisthesis (SPL).

Further investigations of minimum important change of the PCS would therefore be needed.

We chose to power the trial based on a specified effect size (rather than minimum important change) as Terwee et al 2009 [ 62] report a lack of consensus as to minimum important change on the WOMAC.