Anne-Maree Kelly

TL;DR: The minimal clinically significant difference (MCSD) in VAS pain score was defined as the mean difference between current and preceding scores when the subject reported “a little worse” or “ a little better” pain.

TL;DR: No significant difference in minimum significant VAS scores was found between gender, age, and cause-of-pain groups, and differences of less than this amount are unlikely to be of clinical significance.

TL;DR: In adults who have been resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with an initial cardiac rhythm of ventricular fibrillation, paramedic cooling with a rapid infusion of large-volume, ice-cold intravenous fluid decreased core temperature at hospital arrival but was not shown to improve outcome at hospital discharge compared with cooling commenced in the hospital.

TL;DR: This study found the minimum clinically significant difference in VAS pain score for children aged 8 to 15 years (on a 100-mm VAS scale) to be 10 mm (95% confidence interval 7 to 12 mm).

TL;DR: Assessment of the efficacy of a multimodal, centrally coordinated, multisite hand hygiene culture‐change program for reducing rates of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and disease in Victorian hospitals.