Brandon J Manderle, Anirudh K Gowd, Joseph N Liu, Alexander Beletsky, Benedict U Nwachukwu, Gregory P Nicholson, Charles Bush-Joseph, Anthony A Romeo, Brian Forsythe, Brian J Cole, Nikhil N Verma
BACKGROUND: Recent literature has focused on correlating statistically significant changes in outcome measures with clinically significant outcomes (CSOs). CSO benchmarks are being established for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR), but more remains to be defined about them. PURPOSE: To define the time-dependent nature of the minimal clinically important difference (MCID), substantial clinical benefit (SCB), and Patient Acceptable Symptomatic State (PASS) after RCR and to define what factors affect this time to CSO achievement...
December 2020: American Journal of Sports Medicine