Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Distal Radial Fractures
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Distal Radial Fractures - Setting the Standard
IRAS ID
147261
Contact name
TRC Davis
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Research & Innovation Nottingham Health Science Partners
Research summary
There are many different ways of treating a broken wrist bone. Many methods have been used for years but it is still unclear if any method is better than the others. This is especially as no method of treatment works every time. There is currently much interest and ongoing research into the treatment of wrist fractures, in order to find the one which gives the patient the best overall outcome.
The success or failure (outcome) of treatment of a wrist fracture is best determined by the patient with the fracture. and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs: questionnaires which ask patients what they can, and cannot do, after their fracture treatment) have been created. These are now popular for assessing function after treatment, but their use is restricted because we do not know how big a difference needs to be found in these scores to indicate a valuable benefit of one treatment over another (Minimum Clinically Important Difference (MCID)).
This MCID value is essential for the design of new trials to determine which treatment method is best. Currently, there are many PROMs in use but the MCID has not been determined for any these measures following wrist fracture.REC name
London - Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/1255
Date of REC Opinion
14 Jul 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion