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Title: | Minimal clinically important difference in radiological progression of joint damage over 1 year in rheumatoid arthritis: Preliminary results of a validation study with clinical experts | Authors: | Bruynesteyn, K Boers, M Lassere, M Boonen, A Edmonds, J Houben, H Paulus, H Peloso, P Saudan, A van der Linden, S VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree |
Issue Date: | 2001 | Publisher: | J RHEUMATOL PUBL CO | Source: | JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY, 28(4). p. 904-910 | Abstract: | To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) between hand and foot films with a 1 year interval assessed with the Sharp/van der Heijde or Larsen/Scott scoring method. Progression scores of the 2 methods were compared with the opinion of an international expert panel on clinical relevance of radiological joint damage in 4 predefined clinical settings. The expert panel consisted of 3 rheumatologists, who evaluated 46 pairs of hand and foot films, taken with 1 year intervals, of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, Receiver operating characteristics curves analyzed the accuracy of different threshold values (progression scores) of the 2 scoring methods to detect the presence or absence of clinically important difference, as defined by the expert panel as external criterion. The threshold value with the highest accuracy was subsequently chosen as the score representing the MCID. Five Sharp/van der Heijde units and 2 Larsen/Scott units were the best cutoffs, The accompanying sensitivities ranged from 77% to 100% for the Sharp/van der Heijde method and from 73% to 84% for the Larsen/Scott method for the 4 clinical settings, The specificities were between 78% and 84% for the Sharp/van der Heijde method and between 74% and 94% for the Larsen/Scott method. The smallest progression score that can be detected apart from interobserver measurement error. the smallest detectable difference (SDD), was equal to or larger than the calculated MCID, 5 Sharp/van der Heijde units and 6 Larsen/Scott units in our study, if the mean progression scores of the same 2 observers were used. The SDD is a conservative estimate of the MCID: our panel rated progression at or below this level as clinically significant. | Notes: | Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. Limburg Univ Ctr, Diepenbeek, Belgium. VU Univ Hosp, Dept Clin Epidemiol, Amsterdam, Netherlands. St George Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Atrium Heerlen, Dept Rheumatol, Heerlen, Netherlands. Univ Calif Los Angeles, Sch Med, Dept Rheumatol, Los Angeles, CA USA. Royal Univ Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada. Ctr Med Aeroport, Geneva, Switzerland.Bruynesteyn, K, Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med, POB 5800, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. | Keywords: | rheumatoid arthritis; radiographs; radiographic scoring methods; smallest detectable difference; clinically important difference | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/2679 | Link to publication/dataset: | http://jrheum.com/abstracts/abstracts01/904.html | ISSN: | 0315-162X | e-ISSN: | 1499-2752 | ISI #: | 000167808600042 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2002 |
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