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

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 intra...

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Autores principales: Beckers, Laura Wilma Maria Elisabeth, Smeets, Rob Johannes Elise Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01555-1
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spelling pubmed-74875492020-09-15 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 Beckers, Laura Wilma Maria Elisabeth Smeets, Rob Johannes Elise Marie Health Qual Life Outcomes Letter to the Editor 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. BioMed Central 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7487549/ /pubmed/32894135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01555-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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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
title 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_short 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
title_sort 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
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01555-1
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