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From: Determining the clinical importance of treatment benefits for interventions for painful orthopedic conditions

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Metrics of clinical importance—theoretical example for a pain measure. MDC (blue dotted line), MCID (green dotted line), and CID (purple dotted line) are illustrated. The improvement of pain score over time (weeks) is shown for three theoretical patients (Pt1, Pt2, and Pt3). After week 4, the treatment is considered successful for Pt1 (change in pain > CID), the treatment is marginally successful for Pt2 (change in pain > MCID but < CID), and treatment failed in Pt3 (change in pain < MDC).

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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

ISSN: 1749-799X