Minimal clinically important difference: a context-specific metric

Barbara Versyck^{1

2}, Amit Pawa³, Ki Jinn Chin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, AZ Turnhout, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium barbaraversyck@hotmail.com.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Comment

Barbara Versyck et al. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;46(10):933-934.

doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-102330. Epub 2020 Dec 23.

Barbara Versyck^{1

2}, Amit Pawa³, Ki Jinn Chin⁴

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, AZ Turnhout, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium barbaraversyck@hotmail.com.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute pain; health care; outcome assessment; pain; postoperative; regional anesthesia.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: AP has received honoraria from GE Healthcare and Sintetica, and consults for B Braun Medical.

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