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Minimal important difference. The minimal important difference ( MID) or minimal clinically important difference ( MCID) is the smallest change in a treatment outcome that an individual patient would identify as important and which would indicate a change in the patient's management. [ 1][ 2]
In clinical practice, the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is commonly used to assess changes in functional exercise capacity in COPD patients following pulmonary rehabilitation with the primary outcome reported being the distance walked during the test (i.e. 6MWD).
Endocrinology. Glycogen storage disease type II (GSD-II), also called Pompe disease, and formerly known as GSD-IIa or Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy 2V, is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder [ 1] which damages muscle and nerve cells throughout the body. It is caused by an accumulation of glycogen in the lysosome due to deficiency of ...
In broad usage, the "practical clinical significance" answers the question, how effective is the intervention or treatment, or how much change does the treatment cause. In terms of testing clinical treatments, practical significance optimally yields quantified information about the importance of a finding, using metrics such as effect size, number needed to treat (NNT), and preventive fraction.
The transtheoretical model of behavior change is an integrative theory of therapy that assesses an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual. [1] The model is composed of constructs such as: stages of change, processes of change, levels of change, self ...
The Joanna Briggs Institute. JBI, formerly known as the Joanna Briggs Institute, is an international research organisation which develops and delivers evidence-based information, software, education and training designed to improve healthcare practice and health outcomes. JBI works with universities and hospitals internationally through the JBI ...
Ventricular remodeling. In cardiology, ventricular remodeling (or cardiac remodeling) [1] refers to changes in the size, shape, structure, and function of the heart. This can happen as a result of exercise (physiological remodeling) or after injury to the heart muscle (pathological remodeling). [2] The injury is typically due to acute ...
Republicans in Wisconsin have long used Milwaukee as a political punching bag, while former President Donald Trump has bashed the heavily Democratic city over crime and its election process ...