Usefulness of minimum clinically important difference for assessing patients with subaxial degenerative cervical spine disease: Statistical versus substantial clinical benefit

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 155, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2345-2354

  Auffinger, Brenda ^a   Lam, Sandi ^a   Shen, Jingjing ^a   Thaci, Bart ^a   Roitberg, Ben Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerative cervical spine disease; Minimumclinically important difference; Neckdisability index; Pain scales; Patient reported outcome measures; Surgeonratings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; MOBILIZATION; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; NECK PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SPINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892183127     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-013-1909-4     Document Type: Article

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