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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration Volume 25, 2024 - Issue 1-2
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Letter to the Editor

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

Juan Francisco Vázquez-Costa1 Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;2 ALS Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain;3 Neuromuscular Research Unit, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria la Fe (IIS La Fe), Valencia, Spain, and;4 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, SpainCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 214-215 | Received 26 Jul 2023, Accepted 08 Aug 2023, Published online: 30 Aug 2023

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