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01-04-2017 | Editorial

Editorial: The Minimum Clinically Important Difference—The Least We Can Do

Authors: Seth S. Leopold, MD, Raphaël Porcher, PhD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 4/2017

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How should a clinician decide whether a treatment effect claimed in a journal article is worth caring about? …

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Title: Editorial: The Minimum Clinically Important Difference—The Least We Can Do
Authors: Seth S. Leopold, MD
Raphaël Porcher, PhD
Publication date: 01-04-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-017-5253-5

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