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ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2020

Methodological and interpretive concerns about Beemster et al.'s article 'The interpretation of change score of the pain disability index after vocational rehabilitation is baseline dependent': a letter to the editor.

Laura Wilma Maria Elisabeth Beckers, Rob Johannes Elise Marie Smeets

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2 authors.

Laura Wilma Maria Elisabeth BeckersDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands. laura.beckers@maastrichtuniversity.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-7142-2134
Rob Johannes Elise Marie SmeetsDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a critique of Beemster et al.'s article 'The interpretation of change score of the pain disability index after vocational rehabilitation is baseline dependent' (2018). The methodological issues in question include the choices of anchor to determine the minimal important change, and the intraclass correlation coefficient on which the calculation of the standard error of measurement was based. We believe these undermine the authors' interpretation.

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Disability EvaluationQuality of LifeHumansPainPain MeasurementRehabilitation, VocationalChronic musculoskeletal painMinimal important changePain Disability IndexSmallest detectable changeStandard error of measurement

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PMID32894135
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