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Evaluating the credibility of anchor based estimates of minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes: instrument development and reliability study
Devji T, Carrasco-Labra A, Qasim A, Phillips M, Johnston BC, Devasenapathy N, Zeraatkar D, Bhatt M, Jin X, Brignardello-Petersen R, Urquhart O, Foroutan F, Schandelmaier S, Pardo-Hernandez H, Vernooij RW, Huang H, Rizwan Y, Siemieniuk R, Lytvyn L, Patrick DL, Ebrahim S, Furukawa T, Nesrallah G, Schünemann HJ, Bhandari M, Thabane L, Guyatt GH.
BMJ. 2020 Jun 4;369:m1714.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1714. PMID: 32499297; PMCID: PMC7270853.
Dr. Stefan Schandelmaier, PhD from the DKF clinical research group of Prof. Matthias Briel (DKF/ceb) has participated in a study to develop an instrument that evaluates the credibility of "Minimal Important Differences (MIDs)" for patient-relevant outcomes. Furthermore, the reliability of the instrument was empirically investigated and found to be good. EMFs are particularly relevant in the context of non-inferiority studies.