How Much Better Is Good Enough?: Patient-reported Outcomes, Minimal Clinically Important Differences, and Patient Acceptable Symptom States in Perioperative Research

Anesthesiology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 7-10

  Wijeysundera, Duminda N ^a,b,c   Johnson, Sindhu R ^b,c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF RECOVERY 15; QUALITY OF RECOVERY 40; QUALITY OF RECOVERY SCORE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; MINIMAL CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRE;

HUMANS; MINIMAL CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84966350772     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001159     Document Type: Review

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