What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach.
Over the last 30 years, there has been a growing trend in clinical trials towards assessing novel interventions not only against the benchmark of statistical significance, but also with respect to whether they lead to clinically meaningful changes for patients. In the context of Disorders of Conscio...
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| description | Over the last 30 years, there has been a growing trend in clinical trials towards assessing novel interventions not only against the benchmark of statistical significance, but also with respect to whether they lead to clinically meaningful changes for patients. In the context of Disorders of Consciousness (DOC), despite a growing landscape of experimental interventions, there is no agreed standard as to what counts as a minimal clinically important difference (MCID). In part, this issue springs from the fact that, by definition, DOC patients are either unresponsive (i.e., in a Vegetative State; VS) or non-communicative (i.e., in a Minimally Conscious State; MCS), which renders it impossible to assess any subjective perception of benefit, one of the two core aspects of MCIDs. Here, we develop a novel approach that leverages published, international diagnostic guidelines to establish a probability-based minimal clinically important difference (pMCID), and we apply it to the most validated and frequently used scale in DOC: the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). This novel method is objective (i.e., based on published criteria for patient diagnosis) and easy to recalculate as the field refines its agreed-upon criteria for diagnosis. We believe this new approach can help clinicians determine whether observed changes in patients' behavior are clinically important, even when patients cannot communicate their experiences, and can align the landscape of clinical trials in DOC with the practices in other medical fields. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-83718adeb20f4cf79b8b30da3e477c262025-08-20T03:51:24ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01188e029029010.1371/journal.pone.0290290What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach.Martin M MontiNorman M SpivakBrian L EdlowYelena G BodienOver the last 30 years, there has been a growing trend in clinical trials towards assessing novel interventions not only against the benchmark of statistical significance, but also with respect to whether they lead to clinically meaningful changes for patients. In the context of Disorders of Consciousness (DOC), despite a growing landscape of experimental interventions, there is no agreed standard as to what counts as a minimal clinically important difference (MCID). In part, this issue springs from the fact that, by definition, DOC patients are either unresponsive (i.e., in a Vegetative State; VS) or non-communicative (i.e., in a Minimally Conscious State; MCS), which renders it impossible to assess any subjective perception of benefit, one of the two core aspects of MCIDs. Here, we develop a novel approach that leverages published, international diagnostic guidelines to establish a probability-based minimal clinically important difference (pMCID), and we apply it to the most validated and frequently used scale in DOC: the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). This novel method is objective (i.e., based on published criteria for patient diagnosis) and easy to recalculate as the field refines its agreed-upon criteria for diagnosis. We believe this new approach can help clinicians determine whether observed changes in patients' behavior are clinically important, even when patients cannot communicate their experiences, and can align the landscape of clinical trials in DOC with the practices in other medical fields.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290290 |
| spellingShingle | Martin M Monti Norman M Spivak Brian L Edlow Yelena G Bodien What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. PLoS ONE |
| title | What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. |
| title_full | What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. |
| title_fullStr | What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. |
| title_full_unstemmed | What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. |
| title_short | What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach. |
| title_sort | what is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness a novel probabilistic approach |
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