Toward a rigorous assessment of the statistical performances of methods to estimate the Minimal Important Difference of Patient-Reported Outcomes: A protocol for a large-scale simulation study

2022/02/22 by Antoine Vanier, Maxime Leroy, Jean-Benoît Hardouin +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Medicine · #Global Cancer Incidence and Screening #Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2022.02.006

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• Recommended methods for determining responsiveness and minimally important differences for patient-reported outcomes
• Using simulation studies to evaluate statistical methods

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Discussions

• But the literature on the best estimation procedure to validly derive a SESOI based on these anchor-variables is very heterogenous: 
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