Nonsurgical Therapies and the Minimum Clinically Important Difference in Knee Osteoarthritis .
A comparison of treatment effects for nonsurgical therapies and the minimum clinically important difference in knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review
JBJS Reviews. 2019;7(8):e5Thirty-seven guidelines and meta-analyses were included in this systematic review. The main objective was to determine the amount of variation in the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) used to compare pain in knee osteoarthritis literature. The secondary objective was to evaluate the treatment effects of non-surgical interventions against various MCID thresholds.
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