Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and functional status"

Abstract Number: 1354 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
A Comparison of Convergent Validity and Sensitivity to Change of the Conventional Scoring Method to Alternative Scoring Methods of the Health Assessment Questionnaire in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lai Ling Winchow ¹, Nimmisha Govind ¹, Eustasius Musenge ², Arvind Chopra ³, Thomas Huizinga ⁴ and Mohammed Tikly¹, ¹Chris hani baragwanath academic hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ³Center for rheumatic diseases, Pune, India, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The HAQ disability index (HAQ-DI) is the most widely used disease-specific measure of physical disability in RA. This study explores the sensitivity to change…