Interpretation of quality of life changes

Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research.

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Effect Sizes for Interpreting Changes in Health Status

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Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life: The Remarkable Universality of Half a Standard Deviation

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Interpreting the clinical importance of treatment outcomes in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

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Evaluating patient-based outcome measures for use in clinical trials.

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The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System: properties, applications, and interpretation.

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Responsiveness of the Numeric Pain Rating Scale in Patients with Low Back Pain

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Test–retest reliability, validity, and minimum detectable change of visual analog, numerical rating, and verbal rating scales for measurement of osteoarthritic knee pain

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Minimal clinically important difference for change in 6‐minute walk test distance of adults with pathology: a systematic review

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Interpreting the clinical importance of group differences in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

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Minimal clinically important difference for change in comfortable gait speed of adults with pathology: a systematic review

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A combination of distribution- and anchor-based approaches determined minimally important differences (MIDs) for four endpoints in a breast cancer scale

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Combining Distribution- and Anchor-Based Approaches to Determine Minimally Important Differences: The FACIT Experience

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Understanding the Relevance of Measured Change Through Studies of Responsiveness

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An irritable bowel syndrome-specific symptom questionnaire: development and validation

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Symptoms in Adults with Lung Cancer

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Approaches for estimating minimal clinically important differences in systemic lupus erythematosus

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Reliability, validity and ability to detect change of the Personal and Social Performance scale in patients with stable schizophrenia

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Estimating the minimum important change in the 15D scores

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Evaluating the responsiveness of the endometriosis health profile questionnaire: The EHP-30

Jones, G., Jenkinson, C., & Kennedy, S. (2004) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1023/b:qure.0000021316.79349.af · Cited by 158

Minimal clinically meaningful differences for the EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BN20 scales in brain cancer patients

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The clinical significance of quality of life assessments in oncology: a summary for clinicians

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What is the minimal important difference of pain intensity, mandibular function, and headache impact in patients with temporomandibular disorders? Clinical significance analysis of a randomized controlled trial

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Minimal clinically important differences (MCID) in assessing outcomes of post-traumatic stress disorder

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Responsiveness of the Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Quality of Life Scale (AAQoL)

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Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis: Implications for Optimizing Treatments and Clinical Trial Design

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Measuring social functioning with the personal and social performance scale in patients with acute symptoms of schizophrenia: Interpretation of results of a pooled analysis of three Phase III trials of paliperidone extended-release tablets

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Minimal clinically important difference of executive function performance in older adults who fall: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

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How much is enough? Considering minimally important change in youth mental health outcomes

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Methods for explaining the clinical significance of health status measures

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