Reassessing the minimal clinically important differences of patient-reported outcomes in cervical myelopathy: a patient-centered approach from the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network
MCID values for PROs in DCM patients undergoing surgery increase with baseline severity. These findings indicate the importance of stratifying patients by disease severity to enhance the clinical relevance of MCID values, facilitate personalized treatment goals, and improve outcome assessments.
Authors
- Najmedden Attabib (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9845-6505)
- Sean Christie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3540-6022)
- Jérôme Paquet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1390-2428)
- Yoga Raja Rampersaud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2521-5900)
- Christopher S. Lozano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-8572)
- Christopher Small (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-7391)
- Michael H. Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-8165)
- Husain Shakil
- Aileen M. Davis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9903-9399)
- Renan Fernandes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4188-1882)
- Christopher Scott Bailey
- Andrew Nataraj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1469-6518)
- Charles G. Fisher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0374-2854)
- Jefferson R. Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-0305)
- David W. Cadotte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2581-5903)
- Armaan Kush Malhotra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1759-7160)
- Nicolas Dea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-8059)
- Andrew Glennie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7548-1334)
- Greg McIntosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4166-954X)
Institutions
- Western University (CA)
- St. Michael's Hospital (CA)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- University Health Network (CA)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Ottawa Hospital (CA)
- London Health Sciences Centre (CA)
- Horizon Health Network (CA)
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CA)
- Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CA)
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CA)
- St Michael's Hospital (GB)
- Université Laval (CA)
- Krembil Research Institute
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- UConn Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
- Published
- 2025-12-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3171/2025.7.spine25653
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00