Understanding the minimum clinically important difference: a review of concepts and methods

AG Copay, BR Subach, SD Glassman, DW Polly Jr… - The Spine Journal, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The effectiveness of spinal surgery as a treatment option is
currently evaluated through the assessment of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The minimum …

Minimum clinically important difference: current trends in the orthopaedic literature, part II: lower extremity: a systematic review

AG Copay, B Eyberg, AS Chung, KS Zurcher… - JBJS …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) attempts to define the patient’s
experience of treatment outcomes. Efforts at calculating the MCID have yielded multiple …

Minimum clinically important difference: current trends in the spine literature

AS Chung, AG Copay, N Olmscheid, D Campbell… - Spine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Review of the 2011 to 2015 minimum clinically important difference (MCID)-related
publications in Spine, Spine Journal, Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine, and European …

Minimum clinically important difference in lumbar spine surgery patients: a choice of methods using the Oswestry Disability Index, Medical Outcomes Study …

AG Copay, SD Glassman, BR Subach, S Berven… - The Spine Journal, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The impact of lumbar spinal surgery is commonly evaluated
with three patient-reported outcome measures: Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), the physical …

Defining substantial clinical benefit following lumbar spine arthrodesis

SD Glassman, AG Copay, SH Berven, DW Polly… - JBJS, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Background: Validated health-related quality-of-life measures have become important standards
in the evaluation of the outcomes of lumbar spine surgery. However, there are few well-…

Cervical disc arthroplasty with the Prestige LP disc versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, at 2 levels: results of a prospective, multicenter randomized …

…, JR McConnell, RF Dryer, AG Copay… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The authors compared the efficacy and safety of arthroplasty using the Prestige
LP cervical disc with those of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for the …

Cervical disc arthroplasty: 10-year outcomes of the Prestige LP cervical disc at a single level

…, ME Shaffrey, FW Schranck, AG Copay - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2019 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Food and Drug Administration–approved investigational device exemption (IDE)
studies have provided level I evidence supporting cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) as a …

Minimum clinically important difference: current trends in the orthopaedic literature, part I: upper extremity: a systematic review

AG Copay, AS Chung, B Eyberg, N Olmscheid… - JBJS …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) attempts to define the patient’s
experience of treatment outcomes. Efforts at calculating the MCID have yielded multiple …

Assessment of spine surgery outcomes: inconsistency of change amongst outcome measurements

AG Copay, MM Martin, BR Subach, LY Carreon… - The Spine Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Outcomes of spinal treatments are evaluated by clinical relevance:
the proportion of patients who reach a minimum clinically important outcome change. …

[HTML][HTML] Is the Oswestry Disability Index a valid measure of response to sacroiliac joint treatment?

AG Copay, DJ Cher - Quality of Life Research, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Disease-specific measures of the impact of sacroiliac (SI) joint pain on back/pelvis
function are not available. The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a validated functional …