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Minimally important difference estimates and methods: a protocol

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  • Bradley C Johnston Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Research Institute, The Hospital For Sick Children, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shanil Ebrahim Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alonso Carrasco-Labra Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, Chile PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Toshi A Furukawa Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, School of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Donald L Patrick Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mark W Crawford Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brenda R Hemmelgarn Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Holger J Schunemann Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gordon H Guyatt Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gihad Nesrallah Nephrology Program, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Nephrology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gihad Nesrallah; gnesrallah{at}hrh.ca
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Johnston BC, Ebrahim S, Carrasco-Labra A, et al
Minimally important difference estimates and methods: a protocol
BMJ Open 2015;5:e007953. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007953

Publication history

  • Received April 10, 2015
  • Revised July 21, 2015
  • Accepted July 31, 2015
  • First published October 1, 2015.
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October 25, 2017
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