Do we really need to calculate a minimal important difference for ALSFRS-R?: A letter in response to ‘Clinically meaningful change: evaluation of the Rasch-built Overall Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disability Scale (ROADS) and the ALSFRS-R’ published in Vol. 24(3–4), pp. 311–316

"Do we really need to calculate a minimal important difference for ALSFRS-R?: A letter in response to ‘Clinically meaningful change: evaluation of the Rasch-built Overall Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disability Scale (ROADS) and the ALSFRS-R’ published in Vol. 24(3–4), pp. 311–316." Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 25(1-2), pp. 214–215

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Dr Vázquez- Costa is funded by grants of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (JR19/00030, PI Vázquez) and received personal fees from Biogen and Roche outside the submitted work.