Minimal clinically important difference of the Trapeziometacarpal Arthrosis Symptoms and Disability questionnaire
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Trapeziometacarpal Arthrosis Symptoms and Disability questionnaire is a recently developed disease-specific instrument designed to measure patient-reported symptoms. Our aim was to establish a minimal clinically important difference for this questionnaire. This prospective study included 95 patients undergoing operative ( n = 39) or non-operative ( n = 56) treatments for primary trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis. Patients completed a battery of tests including the Trapeziometacarpal Arthrosis Symptoms and Disability questionnaire at the initial clinic visit and follow-up visits. Two anchor-based methods were used to arrive at the minimal clinically important difference. Twenty-four scores met criteria for minimal clinically important change, with a median overall score rounding to 15 points. This finding is an important step in facilitating the application of this disease-specific instrument in practice. Level of evidence III
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".