It is time to develop appropriate tools for assessing minimal clinically important differences, performance bias and quality of evidence in reviews of behavioral interventions.
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office, Headquarters Campus Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA. sgrant@rand.org.
Sean
S
Grant
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office, Headquarters Campus Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Eric R
ER
Pedersen
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office, Headquarters Campus Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Karen Chan
KC
Osilla
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office, Headquarters Campus Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Magdalena
M
Kulesza
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office, Headquarters Campus Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Elizabeth J
EJ
D'Amico
D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D000071081:Minimal Clinically Important Difference; D062405:Motivational Interviewing
Brief intervention; Cochrane; GRADE approach; effect size; minimal clinically important difference; motivational interviewing; risk of bias; systematic review