ASSESSING PATIENT RESPONSIVENESS USING PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES AFTER SURGERY

BackgroundThis article reviews four commonly used approaches to assess patient responsiveness to a treatment or therapy [Return To Normal (RTN), Minimal Important Difference (MID), Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID), OMERACT-OARSI (OO)], and demonstrates how each of the methods can be formulated in a multi-level modelling (MLM) framework.MethodsData from the Arthroplasty Pain Experience (APEX) cohort study was used. Patients...