title: Quantitative myasthenia gravis score: assessment of responsiveness and longitudinal validity.
abstract: We prospectively tested the quantitative myasthenia gravis score (QMG) for responsiveness and longitudinal construct validity in 53 patients with myasthenia gravis. Index of responsiveness was high. Longitudinal construct validity was confirmed by the correlation between changes in QMG and manual muscle testing and by a difference in QMG changes across patients that were clinically unchanged, improved, or worse between two visits. Our results support QMG use for assessing clinical change in trials.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center and Durham VAMC, Durham, NC, USA. bedla001@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Bedlack
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Simel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bosworth
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Samsa
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tucker-Lipscomb
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000276:immunology; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000276:immunology; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic / Q000276:immunology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic; C095714:MUSK protein, human; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases