The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Variability of minimum clinically important difference threshold values in lumbar microdiscectomy literature: a systematic review.
Niklas H Koehne, Junho Song, Auston R Locke, Justin Tiao, Omri Maayan, Eric Mai, Tariq Issa, John J Corvi, Nikan K Namiri, Andrew C Hecht, Sravisht Iyer, Sheeraz A Qureshi
Published: 202510.1016/j.spinee.2025.10.010
Abstract
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been increasingly utilized to evaluate outcomes of spinal surgery procedures such as lumbar microdiscectomy. To interpret PROMs in a clinically meaningful way, threshold values such a…
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