Research article
Percentile benchmarks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Health Assessment Questionnaire as a quality indicator (QI)
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* Corresponding author: Eswar Krishnan Eswar_krishnan@hotmail.com
1 Clinical Research Center of Reading, West Reading, PA, USA
2 Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
3 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Arthritis Res Ther 2004, 6:R505-R513 doi:10.1186/ar1220
Published: 14 September 2004Additional files
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Figures 6–18 An MS Word file containing figures showing progression of HAQ-DI with disease duration by age and sex categories. Generally a HAQ-DI ≤ 1.0 is considered to indicate mild disability and a HAQ-DI ≥ 2.0 is considered to indicate severe disability. Assessing whether a change in HAQ-DI is 'significant' or not should take into account other information such as pain and the patient's and physician's assessments of general wellbeing.
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