Clinical significance of hearing gains is measured by patients’ motivation to seek care

Evidence

Hence, “clinical significance” was applied in a literal sense: participants were asked whether a positive change in SNR, as an example of what a visit to the clinic would provide, was worth attending the clinic to get that change. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5710

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘clinical significance’ operationally as motivation to seek intervention rather than a statistical threshold.