The overarching goals of treatments for orthopedic conditions are generally to improve or
restore function and alleviate pain. Results of clinical trials are generally used to determine …

Objective Minimal clinically important difference (MCID) has become the most important
psychometric factor for interpreting change in individual's responses over time from the …

Objective To evaluate patient predictors of good outcome following total joint arthroplasty
(TJA). Methods A population cohort with hip/knee arthritis (osteoarthritis [OA] or inflammatory …

Background and purpose—The increased use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in
orthopedics requires data on estimated minimal clinically important improvements (MCIIs) …

Aims A substantial fraction of patients undergoing knee arthroplasty (KA) or hip arthroplasty
(HA) do not achieve an improvement as high as the minimal clinically important difference …

Background The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) is intended to detect a
change in a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) large enough for a patient to …

Objective To systematically review the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and
patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) estimates in pain and function measured using the …

Purpose To determine short-term improvements, satisfaction rates and the patient
acceptable symptom state (PASS) after total joint replacement (TJR) for different patient …

It is estimated that up to a third of recipients of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) experience
chronic pain postoperatively. However, there are no clear indications within the literature …

Objective. We aimed to evaluate how minimal (clinically) important differences (MCID/MID)
were calculated in rheumatology in the past 2 decades and demonstrate how the calculation …