Self-Report Questionnaire Scores in Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared with Traditional Physical, Radiographic, and Laboratory Measures

Abstract

A simple self-report questionnaire provides information similar to many traditional measures in rheumatoid arthritis and appears to be an attractive, cost-effective approach to assessing and monitoring quantitatively the status of an individual patient.

The value of the health assessment questionnaire and special patient‐generated scales to demonstrate change in systemic sclerosis patients over time

“…Its results correlate with changes in laboratory and physical examination measures in RA (13) and have been shown to predict mortality (14). This instrument has demonstrated remarkable generalizability in its application to other connective diseases, such as SLE (15), osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia (16), and polymyositis (17).…”

Measures of activity and damage in rheumatoid arthritis: Depiction of changes and prediction of mortality over five years

“…We have sought to better characterize measures of inflammatory activity and articular damage over long periods in RA by performing a baseline assessment of 210 consecutive patients in [1984][1985][1986], which included a complete joint count (33), quantitatively scored radiograph (34), laboratory assessments of ESR and rheumatoid factor (35), physical and self-report questionnaire measures of functional status (36,37), and questionnaire data concerning global status, pain, and the psychological construct of helplessness (38)(39)(40). In this report, we assess the capacity of each measure to depict change in clinical status over a 5-year period.…”

The use of rheumatoid arthritis health‐related quality of life patient questionnaires in clinical practice: Lessons learned

“…Although multidimensional HRQOL instruments correlate significantly with data from traditional joint counts, laboratory tests, radiographs, global function and pain scales, HRQOL measures provide additional important information. Pincus et al (39) asked 259 RA patients to complete the MHAQ along with traditional physical, radiographic, and laboratory measures during a 1-time office visit. Significant correlations were reported between the MHAQ and all measures of clinical status (e.g., ESR r ϭ 0.24, P Ͻ 0.001; radiographic score r ϭ 0.31, P Ͻ 0.001; global self assessment r ϭ 0.74, P Ͻ 0.0001) (39).…”

“…Pincus et al (39) asked 259 RA patients to complete the MHAQ along with traditional physical, radiographic, and laboratory measures during a 1-time office visit. Significant correlations were reported between the MHAQ and all measures of clinical status (e.g., ESR r ϭ 0.24, P Ͻ 0.001; radiographic score r ϭ 0.31, P Ͻ 0.001; global self assessment r ϭ 0.74, P Ͻ 0.0001) (39). However, the measures of clinical status accounted for only 59% of the variance when predicting MHAQ scores.…”