Aims To identify the responsiveness, minimal clinically important difference (MCID), minimal
clinical important change (MIC), and patient-acceptable symptom state (PASS) thresholds in …

Aims Responsiveness to clinically important change is a key feature of any outcome
measure. Throughout Europe, health-related quality of life following total knee arthroplasty …

Background Many patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) generate single number
index scores that summarise responses to different questions within a questionnaire …

Importance Increases in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) utilization rates suggest that its
indications have been expanded to include patients with less severe symptoms. A recent …

Purpose To investigate whether the performance of the short form-12 (SF-12) health survey
is comparable with the longer version SF-36 for measuring health-related quality of life over …

Generic and disease-specific health status instruments are commonly used to assess
patients' outcomes. The hypothesis that they measure distinct but complementary aspects of …

OBJECTIVES: To study responsiveness and establish the minimal clinically important
differences (MCIDs) and minimal detectable change (MDC) in patients undergoing total …

Background The aim of this study was to identify minimal clinically important difference
(MCID), minimal important change (MIC) and minimal detectable change (MDC) for the …

Abstract Purpose To evaluate the Oxford Knee Score (OKS), EQ-5D-5L utility index and EQ-
5D visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) for health-related quality of life outcome measurement …

The SF-6D, a health-related quality-of-life measure, assigns value to patients' perception of
their health. We determined SF-6D values of 844 TKA patients, deduced clinical relevance …