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标题：Improving the interpretation of quality of life evidence in meta-analyses: the application of minimal important difference units
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作者：Bradley C Johnston ; Kristian Thorlund ; Holger J Schünemann 等
期刊名称：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
印刷版ISSN：1477-7525
电子版ISSN：1477-7525
出版年度：2010
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：116
DOI：10.1186/1477-7525-8-116
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Systematic reviews of randomized trials that include measurements of health-related quality of life potentially provide critical information for patient and clinicians facing challenging health care decisions. When, as is most often the case, individual randomized trials use different measurement instruments for the same construct (such as physical or emotional function), authors typically report differences between intervention and control in standard deviation units (so-called
关键词：Pool Estimate ; Minimal Important Difference ; Standard Deviation Unit ; HRQL Measure ; HRQL Instrument