Reported Minimal Clinically Important Differences for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Hand and Upper-Extremity Surgery: A Systematic Review

This systematic review reports the MCIDs for common hand and upper-extremity outcome measures, providing surgeons with reference values to interpret patient-reported changes, while also demonstrating variability in MCID based on diagnosis and methodology. This can help distinguish meaningful improvement for different clinical and patient settings in addition to aid design of studies with clinically relevant end points in upper-extremity surgery.