Minimally important change was estimated for the Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire after foot/ankle surgery.

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OBJECTIVES: To ascertain the smallest amounts of change for the three Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire (MOXFQ) domains that are likely to be clinically meaningful and beyond measurement error for conditions affecting the foot/ankle. Estimates were compared with those from the Short-Form 36 (SF-36). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A prospective observational study of 671 consecutive patients undergoing foot or ankle surgery at an orthopedic hospital. Before and 9 months after surgery, patients c...

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Authors: Dawson, J; Boller, I; Doll, H; Lavis, G; Sharp, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of clinical epidemiology
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 697-705
• Publication date: 2014-06-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.01.003
• EISSN: 1878-5921
• ISSN: 0895-4356
• Language: English
• Keywords: Foot; Questionnaires; Treatment Outcome; Ankle; Aged; Young Adult; Aged, 80 and over; Reproducibility of Results; Female; Male; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Adolescent; Adult; Prospective Studies; Middle Aged