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Table 3 MIDa estimates from the ROCb analyses

From: Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for common outcome instruments in patients with a closed humeral shaft fracture - analysis of the FISH randomised clinical trial data

Outcome

MID (95% CI)

Sensitivity

Specificity

AUCf (95% CI)

Ng

DASHc

-6.7 (-7.9 to -5.4)

0.71

0.74

0.77 (0.73 to 0.82)

420 (172/248)

Pain on activitiesd

-0.5 (-0.5 to -0.5)

0.62

0.69

0.68 (0.63 to 0.73)

427 (178/249)

Constant-Murley scoree

7.6 (7.4 to 13.2)

0.61

0.71

0.71 (0.66 to 0.76)

416 (172/244)

  1. aMinimal important difference
  2. bReceiving operating characteristics, graphs shown in Fig. S2 of the supplementary appendix
  3. cThe Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) score from 0 to 100 (0 = optimal outcome)
  4. dPain score is 11-point Numerical Rating Scales with score from 0 to 10 (0 = optimal outcome)
  5. eConstant-Murley score from 0 to 100 (100 = optimal outcome)
  6. fArea under the curve
  7. gN = count of anchor–outcome pairs used in the analysis (improved / not improved between consecutive time points)