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ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2021

Evaluating the Minimal Clinically Important Difference of the King's Sarcoidosis Questionnaire in a Multicenter Prospective Study.

Robert P Baughman, Marc A Judson, Jennifer L Beaumont, Lisa A Maier, Nadera J Sweiss, Daniel A Culver, Edward S Chen, Noopur Singh, Elyse E Lower, Rebecca Reeves and 4 more

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Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Quality of Life in Sarcoidosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  6. WASOG Clinical Trial Endpoint Task Force: Executive Summary.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2025
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  9. Potential limitations of activity tracking devices in monitoring effects of treatment for sarcoidosis.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2023
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  10. Efzofitimod: a novel anti-inflammatory agent for sarcoidosis.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Robert P BaughmanUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Marc A JudsonAlbany Medical College, Albany, New York.
Jennifer L BeaumontClinical Outcomes Solutions, Tucson, Arizona.
Lisa A MaierNational Jewish, Denver, Colorado.
Nadera J SweissUniversity of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel A CulverCleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
Edward S ChenJohns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0003-0723-8209
Noopur SinghFoundation for Sarcoidosis Research, Chicago, Illinois.
Elyse E LowerUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rebecca ReevesUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nabeel HamzehNational Jewish, Denver, Colorado.ORCID 0000-0001-7296-8975
Jan C GruttersInterstitial Lung Disease Center of Excellence, Department of Pulmonology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Dominique ValeyreInstitut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale 1272, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Assitance Publique-Hopital de Paris, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France; and.
Surinder S BirringCentre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Quality of LifeSarcoidosisHumansMinimal Clinically Important DifferenceProspective StudiesSurveys and Questionnairesquality of lifesarcoidosisSt. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire

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