Table 1.
Distribution-based estimates of the minimal important difference (MID).
Table 2.
Baseline characteristics.
Table 3.
Distribution-based methods to estimate the minimal important difference (MID) in physical activity.
Fig 1.
Correlation between change in daily step count and possible anchors.
a) 6MWD and b) CRDQdyspnea in the rehabilitation sample (n = 74); 6MWD after 3 months was missing in 3 patients, CRDQdyspnea scores were missing in 10 patients.
Table 4.
Benefits after rehabilitation (rehabilitation sample, n = 74).
Fig 2.
Time to first hospitalization.
difference between patients exceeding the MID (dotted line) and patients not exceeding the MID (solid line), based on a) SEM cutoff, b) empirical rule effect size and c) cohen effect size and 0.5 SD.
Table 5.
Time to first hospitalization between patients who exceed the MID and patients who don’t.