Responsiveness of standard spine outcome tools: do they measure up?

CONCLUSIONS: All PROs currently included in the spine outcome core measures are associated with patients' subjective assessment of a clinically important change, and all but the MCS scores are responsive to such change. Based on these findings, the core spine PROs could be reduced to include fewer estimates of pain. The authors suggest replacing the less responsive measures with tools that help to characterize factors that are driving the patients' subjective assessment of change and that meaningfully address some of the higher levels in the hierarchy of quality-of-life outcomes. PMID: 32084630 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - February 20, 2020 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Schwartz CE, Stark RB, Balasuberamaniam P, Shrikumar M, Wasim A, Finkelstein JA Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research