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Outcome measures in osteoarthritis: randomized controlled trials. 2004

Vibeke Strand, and Ariella Kelman

Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, 306 Ramona Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028, USA. vstrand@aol.com

Accepted outcome measures in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in osteoarthritis (OA) include patient-reported assessments of physical function and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Available data can inform treatment decisions when statistically significant changes are viewed in terms of clinically important improvements. Patient-reported outcomes validated in OA include global assessments of pain, disease activity, and disease-specific and generic measures of physical function and HRQOL. Definitions of minimum clinically important differences (MCID) have been derived from RCTs with physical therapy, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and cyclooxygenase-2 selective agents. Definitions of MCID should serve only as guidelines based on mean changes in a treatment group, and do not necessarily reflect clinically meaningful improvements for an individual patient. They help to interpret data across treatments and patient populations. Definitions of MCID may differ for the type of intervention assessed; additional methodologic issues must be addressed when evaluating nonpharmacologic treatments. Based on RCTs in OA evaluating physical therapy, cyclooxygenase-2 agents, and NSAIDs, the Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis Index is valid, reliable, sensitive to change, and correlates closely with the generic Medical Outcomes Survey Short-Form 36 measure of HRQOL. When evaluating RCT data, understanding derivation and MCID values of outcome measures facilitates informed therapeutic decisions regarding therapeutic interventions.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010003	Osteoarthritis	A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.	Arthritis, Degenerative,Osteoarthrosis,Osteoarthrosis Deformans,Arthroses,Arthrosis,Arthritides, Degenerative,Degenerative Arthritides,Degenerative Arthritis,Osteoarthritides,Osteoarthroses
D010147	Pain Measurement	Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.	Analgesia Tests,Analogue Pain Scale,Formalin Test,McGill Pain Questionnaire,Nociception Tests,Pain Assessment,Pain Intensity,Pain Severity,Tourniquet Pain Test,Visual Analogue Pain Scale,Analog Pain Scale,Assessment, Pain,McGill Pain Scale,Visual Analog Pain Scale,Analgesia Test,Analog Pain Scales,Analogue Pain Scales,Formalin Tests,Intensity, Pain,Measurement, Pain,Nociception Test,Pain Assessments,Pain Intensities,Pain Measurements,Pain Questionnaire, McGill,Pain Scale, Analog,Pain Scale, Analogue,Pain Scale, McGill,Pain Severities,Pain Test, Tourniquet,Questionnaire, McGill Pain,Scale, Analog Pain,Scale, Analogue Pain,Scale, McGill Pain,Severity, Pain,Test, Analgesia,Test, Formalin,Test, Nociception,Test, Tourniquet Pain,Tests, Nociception,Tourniquet Pain Tests
D011787	Quality of Health Care	The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.	Pharmacy Audit,Quality of Care,Quality of Healthcare,Audit, Pharmacy,Care Quality,Health Care Quality,Healthcare Quality,Pharmacy Audits
D004185	Disability Evaluation	Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits.	Disability Evaluations,Evaluation, Disability,Evaluations, Disability
D005944	Glucosamine		2-Amino-2-Deoxyglucose,Dona,Dona S,Glucosamine Sulfate,Hespercorbin,Xicil,2 Amino 2 Deoxyglucose,Sulfate, Glucosamine
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000894	Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal	Anti-inflammatory agents that are non-steroidal in nature. In addition to anti-inflammatory actions, they have analgesic, antipyretic, and platelet-inhibitory actions. They act by blocking the synthesis of prostaglandins by inhibiting cyclooxygenase, which converts arachidonic acid to cyclic endoperoxides, precursors of prostaglandins. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis accounts for their analgesic, antipyretic, and platelet-inhibitory actions; other mechanisms may contribute to their anti-inflammatory effects.	Analgesics, Anti-Inflammatory,Aspirin-Like Agent,Aspirin-Like Agents,NSAID,Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agent,Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agent,Anti Inflammatory Agents, Nonsteroidal,Antiinflammatory Agents, Non Steroidal,Antiinflammatory Agents, Nonsteroidal,NSAIDs,Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents,Agent, Aspirin-Like,Agent, Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory,Agent, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory,Anti-Inflammatory Agent, Non-Steroidal,Anti-Inflammatory Agent, Nonsteroidal,Anti-Inflammatory Analgesics,Aspirin Like Agent,Aspirin Like Agents,Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Agent,Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Agent,Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Agents
D016032	Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic	Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.	Clinical Trials, Randomized,Controlled Clinical Trials, Randomized,Trials, Randomized Clinical
D016861	Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors	Compounds or agents that combine with cyclooxygenase (PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES) and thereby prevent its substrate-enzyme combination with arachidonic acid and the formation of eicosanoids, prostaglandins, and thromboxanes.	Cyclo-Oxygenase Inhibitor,Cyclooxygenase Inhibitor,Prostaglandin Endoperoxide Synthase Inhibitor,Prostaglandin Endoperoxide Synthase Inhibitors,Prostaglandin Synthase Inhibitor,Prostaglandin Synthase Inhibitors,Prostaglandin Synthesis Antagonist,Prostaglandin Synthesis Antagonists,Cyclo-Oxygenase Inhibitors,Inhibitors, Cyclo-Oxygenase,Inhibitors, Cyclooxygenase,Inhibitors, Prostaglandin Synthase,Inhibitors, Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthase,Antagonist, Prostaglandin Synthesis,Antagonists, Prostaglandin Synthesis,Cyclo Oxygenase Inhibitor,Cyclo Oxygenase Inhibitors,Inhibitor, Cyclo-Oxygenase,Inhibitor, Cyclooxygenase,Inhibitor, Prostaglandin Synthase,Inhibitors, Cyclo Oxygenase,Inhibitors, Prostaglandin Endoperoxide Synthase,Synthase Inhibitor, Prostaglandin,Synthesis Antagonist, Prostaglandin
D017063	Outcome Assessment, Health Care	Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).	Assessment, Outcome,Outcome Assessment,Outcome Assessment (Health Care),Outcomes Research,Assessment, Outcomes,Outcome Measures,Outcome Studies,Outcomes Assessment,Assessment, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcome,Assessments, Outcome (Health Care),Assessments, Outcomes,Measure, Outcome,Measures, Outcome,Outcome Assessments,Outcome Assessments (Health Care),Outcome Measure,Outcome Study,Outcomes Assessments,Research, Outcomes,Studies, Outcome,Study, Outcome

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