Quantifying Success After Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: the Minimal Clinically Important Percentage of Maximal Possible Improvement.
Kevin A HaoCarl TamsMicah J NieboerJoseph J KingThomas W WrightRyan W SimovitchMoby ParsonsBradley S SchochPublished in: Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery (2023)
The %MPI offers a simple method to quickly assess improvements across patient outcome scores. However, the %MPI that represents patient improvement after surgery is not uniformly the previously established 30% threshold. Surgeons should utilize score-specific estimates of the MCI-%MPI to gauge success when evaluating patients undergoing primary aTSA.