PMID- 11845014
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020509
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 1040-8711 (Print)
IS  - 1040-8711 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 2
DP  - 2002 Mar
TI  - Many faces of the minimal clinically important difference (MCID): a literature 
      review and directions for future research.
PG  - 109-14
AB  - The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for an instrument is a much 
      sought after, but elusive figure. In this review we will highlight new findings 
      in this area, including taxonomy of MCID, methods used to ascertain MCID, the 
      perspective taken for evaluating importance, and other sources of variation for 
      MCID values. In the end we believe the MCID will be a context-specific value 
      rather than a fixed number. The review highlights the need to do methodological 
      research in this area, especially concurrent comparisons between approaches, or 
      across different patient groups. There are many faces to the MCID, it is not a 
      simple concept, nor simple to calculate.
FAU - Beaton, Dorcas E
AU  - Beaton DE
AD  - Department of Occupational Therapy, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation 
      Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. beatond@smh.toronto.on.ca
FAU - Boers, Marteen
AU  - Boers M
FAU - Wells, George A
AU  - Wells GA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Curr Opin Rheumatol
JT  - Current opinion in rheumatology
JID - 9000851
SB  - IM
MH  - Clinical Medicine/*methods
MH  - Clinical Trials as Topic/*methods
MH  - Health Status Indicators
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Research Design
MH  - Rheumatic Diseases/physiopathology/*therapy
MH  - Rheumatology/*methods
MH  - Treatment Outcome
RF  - 56
EDAT- 2002/02/15 10:00
MHDA- 2002/05/10 10:01
CRDT- 2002/02/15 10:00
PHST- 2002/02/15 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/05/10 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/02/15 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1097/00002281-200203000-00006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2002 Mar;14(2):109-14. doi: 
      10.1097/00002281-200203000-00006.