PMID- 17136970
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070222
LR  - 20220310
IS  - 1541-2555 (Print)
IS  - 1541-2563 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 1
DP  - 2005 Mar
TI  - Minimally clinically important difference for the UCSD Shortness of Breath 
      Questionnaire, Borg Scale, and Visual Analog Scale.
PG  - 105-10
AB  - Dyspnea is a primary symptom of chronic lung disease and an important outcome 
      measure for clinical trials. Several standardized measures have been developed to 
      evaluate this important symptom and are being used increasingly in clinical 
      trials. The minimally clinically important difference (MCID) is not well defined 
      for these measures but is important in interpreting the clinical meaning of 
      results of studies in this area. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the 
      MCID for three commonly used measures to assess dyspnea in chronic lung disease: 
      UCSD Shortness of Breath Questionnaire (SOBQ), Borg Scale (Borg), and Visual 
      Analog Scale (VAS). The analysis is based on a retrospective review of published 
      trials evaluating the response to a pulmonary rehabilitation or exercise 
      intervention that is known to produce modest, but clinically meaningful changes 
      for such patients. Using a distribution-based approach based primarily on effect 
      size, the recommended MCID for these measures are: 5-units for the SOBQ, 1-unit 
      for the Borg scale, and approximately 10 to 20 units for the VAS.
FAU - Ries, Andrew L
AU  - Ries AL
AD  - University of California, UCSD Medical Center 200 W. Arbor Drive, San Diego, 
      California 92103-8377, USA. aries@ucsd.edu
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - England
TA  - COPD
JT  - COPD
JID - 101211769
SB  - IM
MH  - Data Interpretation, Statistical
MH  - Dyspnea/*diagnosis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pain Measurement
MH  - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/*diagnosis
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
RF  - 31
EDAT- 2006/12/02 09:00
MHDA- 2007/02/23 09:00
CRDT- 2006/12/02 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/02 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/02/23 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/02 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1081/copd-200050655 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - COPD. 2005 Mar;2(1):105-10. doi: 10.1081/copd-200050655.