Statistics In Brief: Minimum Clinically Important Difference—Availability of Reliable Estimates

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 475, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 933-946

  Maltenfort, Mitchell ^a   Díaz Ledezma, Claudio ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hospital Naval   (Chile)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; MINIMUM CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISABILITY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HIP REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MINIMAL CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MINIMAL CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85008219873     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-016-5204-6     Document Type: Article

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