PMID- 34588833 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220427 IS - 1179-271X (Print) IS - 1179-271X (Electronic) IS - 1179-271X (Linking) VI - 12 DP - 2021 TI - Minimal Clinically Important Differences (MCID) for the Western Ontario Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder Index (WOOS) and the Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS). PG - 299-306 LID - 10.2147/PROM.S316920 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) is an important instrument in the interpretation of changes in patient-reported outcome measures (PROM). To our knowledge, no MCID of the Western Ontario Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder Index (WOOS) score has ever been reported and no studies have reported an MCID for the Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) based on patients with glenohumeral osteoarthritis, treated with an anatomical total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA). The aim of this study was to determine MCID for WOOS and OSS in a cohort of patients with glenohumeral osteoarthritis treated with an aTSA. METHODS: All patients treated with an aTSA for glenohumeral osteoarthritis at our institution between March 2017 and February 2019 were included. Each patient completed the WOOS and the OSS preoperatively and one year postoperatively. At one year, the patients were asked to rate their overall improvement on a 7-point scale. We used an anchor-based method as our primary method to calculate the MCID, supported by two different distribution-based methods. RESULTS: A total of 45 primary aTSA were included. The MCID of WOOS was 12.3 according to the anchor-based method and 14.2 and 10.3 according to the two distribution-based methods. The MCID of OSS was 4.3 according to the anchor-based method and 5.8 and 4.3 according to the two distribution-based methods. CONCLUSION: The anchor-based method is considered superior to the distribution-based method, and therefore we advocate to use this as MCID. For patients with glenohumeral osteoarthritis treated with an aTSA, the MCID values were 12.3 points for WOOS and 4.3 points for OSS. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report a MCID value for WOOS and the first study to report a MCID value for OSS in this subgroup of patients. CI - (c) 2021 Nyring et al. FAU - Nyring, Marc Randall Kristensen AU - Nyring MRK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1511-9309 AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, 2900, Denmark. FAU - Olsen, Bo Sanderhoff AU - Olsen BS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3509-0742 AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, 2900, Denmark. FAU - Amundsen, Alexander AU - Amundsen A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9245-9430 AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, 2900, Denmark. FAU - Rasmussen, Jeppe Vejlgaard AU - Rasmussen JV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5886-1629 AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, 2900, Denmark. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210922 PL - New Zealand TA - Patient Relat Outcome Meas JT - Patient related outcome measures JID - 101551170 PMC - PMC8473013 OTO - NOTNLM OT - anatomical total shoulder arthroplasty OT - glenohumeral osteoarthritis OT - minimal clinically important difference OT - patient reported outcome measures COIS- Bo Sanderhoff Olsen, Alexander Amundsen and Jeppe Vejlgaard Rasmussen received institutional support from DePuy Synthes for conducting the study "Functional outcome and complications after Global Unite prostheses" which provided data for the present study. In addition, Bo Sanderhoff Olsen and Jeppe Vejlgaard Rasmussen are paid speakers for DePuy Synthes (Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America). Jeppe Vejlgaard Rasmussen reports speaker fees from Johnson and Johnson and Zimmer Biomet, outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work. EDAT- 2021/10/01 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/01 06:01 PMCR- 2021/09/22 CRDT- 2021/09/30 07:09 PHST- 2021/05/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/07/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/30 07:09 [entrez] PHST- 2021/10/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/01 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 316920 [pii] AID - 10.2147/PROM.S316920 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Patient Relat Outcome Meas. 2021 Sep 22;12:299-306. doi: 10.2147/PROM.S316920. eCollection 2021.