TY - JOUR
T1 - 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'
T2 - a letter to the editor
AU - Beckers, Laura Wilma Maria Elisabeth
AU - Smeets, Rob Johannes Elise Marie
PY - 2020/9/7
Y1 - 2020/9/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Chronic musculoskeletal pain
KW - Pain Disability Index
KW - Minimal important change
KW - Standard error of measurement
KW - Smallest detectable change
U2 - 10.1186/s12955-020-01555-1
DO - 10.1186/s12955-020-01555-1
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 32894135
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
JF - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
SN - 1477-7525
IS - 1
M1 - 301
ER -