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. 2022 Jul;43(7):968-972.
doi: 10.1177/10711007221091815. Epub 2022 Apr 30.

Minimal Clinically Important Differences of PROMIS PF in Ankle Fracture Patients

Luke Myhre  1 , Patrick Kellam  1 , Graham Dekeyser  1 , Haojia Li  2 , Yue Zhang  2 , Amy M Cizik, Justin Haller  1
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Minimal Clinically Important Differences of PROMIS PF in Ankle Fracture Patients

Luke Myhre et al. Foot Ankle Int. 2022 Jul.

Abstract

Background: Evaluating the minimal clinically important differences (MCIDs) in patient-reported outcome scores is essential for use of clinical outcomes data. The purpose of the current study was to calculate MCID of Patient Reported Outcome Information System Physical Function (PROMIS PF) scores for ankle fracture patients.

Methods: All patients who underwent operative fixation for ankle fractures at a single level 1 trauma center were identified by Current Procedural Terminology code. PROMIS PF scores were collected. Patients had to complete an anchor question at 2 time points postoperatively to be included in this study. Anchor-based and distribution-based MCIDs were calculated.

Results: A total of 331 patients were included in the distribution-based analysis, and 195 patients were included in the anchor-based analysis. Mean age was 45.3 years (SD 17.5), and 59.4% of participants were female. MCID for PROMIS PF scores was 5.05 in the distribution-based method and 5.43 in the anchor-based method.

Conclusion: This study identified MCID values based on 2 time points postoperatively for PROMIS PF scores in the ankle fracture population. Both methods of MCID calculation resulted in equivalent MCIDs. This can be used to identify patients outside the normal preoperative and postoperative norms and may help to make clinically relevant practice decisions.

Level of evidence: Level I, diagnostic study, testing of previously developed diagnostic measure on consecutive patients with reference standard applied.

Keywords: MCID; PROMIS; ankle fracture; physical function.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. ICMJE forms for all authors are available online.

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