Interpretability of Change Scores in Measures of Balance in People With COPD

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5952492	Chest	2016	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Among patients with COPD undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation, a change of 5 to 7 points for the BBS, 13 to 17 points for the BESTest, and 19 points for the ABC scale is required to be both perceptible to patients and beyond measurement error.

Keywords

ABC MDC95 GRC MCID RCT ROC BBS AUC Randomized controlled trial Activities-specific Balance Confidence BESTest COPD Balance Evaluation Systems Test Pulmonary rehabilitation Minimal Clinically Important Difference physical therapy Outcome measures Receiver operating characteristic curve area under the curve exercise Responsiveness