Minimum clinically important improvement and patient acceptable symptom state in pain and function in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic back pain, hand osteoarthritis, and hip and knee osteoarthritis: Results from a prospective multinational study

• Published in: Arthritis care & research (2010) Vol. 64; no. 11; pp. 1699 - 1707
• Main Authors: Tubach, F., Ravaud, P., Martin‐Mola, E., Awada, H., Bellamy, N., Bombardier, C., Felson, D. T., Hajjaj‐Hassouni, N., Hochberg, M., Logeart, I., Matucci‐Cerinic, M., van de Laar, M., van der Heijde, D., Dougados, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2012; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnosis; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - psychology; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - therapy; Back Pain - diagnosis; Back Pain - psychology; Back Pain - therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Chronic Pain - diagnosis; Chronic Pain - psychology; Chronic Pain - therapy; Cohort Studies; Disability Evaluation; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Diseases of the spine; Female; Humans; Inflammatory joint diseases; Internationality; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritis, Hip - diagnosis; Osteoarthritis, Hip - psychology; Osteoarthritis, Hip - therapy; Osteoarthritis, Knee - diagnosis; Osteoarthritis, Knee - psychology; Osteoarthritis, Knee - therapy; Patient Satisfaction - statistics & numerical data; Prospective Studies; Rheumatic Diseases - diagnosis; Rheumatic Diseases - psychology; Rheumatic Diseases - therapy; Severity of Illness Index; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - diagnosis; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - psychology; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - therapy; Treatment Outcome; Knee; Knee osteoarthritis; Lumbar spine; Low back pain; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Autoimmune disease; Inflammatory joint disease; Spine disease; Spondylarthropathy; Improvement; Pain; Dorsalgia; Rachialgia; Hip osteoarthritis; Degenerative disease; Ankylosing spondylitis; Human; Immunopathology; Rheumatology; Hand; Hip; Symptomatology; Chronic; Rheumatoid arthritis; Arthropathy; Dorsal spine; Osteoarthritis

Objective To estimate the minimum clinically important improvement (MCII) and patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) values for 4 generic outcomes in 5 rheumatic diseases and 7 countries. Methods We conducted a multinational (Australia, France, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Spain, and The Netherlands) 4...