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Table 4 PASS estimates

From: Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) for pain and the Patient-Rated Wrist/Hand Evaluation (PRWHE) for patients with osteoarthritis at the base of thumb

Outcome measure

75th percentile method

ROC method

 

PASS

PASS

Sensitivity

Specificity

AUC (95% CI)

NRS pain

2

2.5

0.82

0.91

0.92 (0.89 to 0.95)

PRWHE total

22

30

0.88

0.90

0.95 (0.93 to 0.97)

PRWHE pain

13

17

0.87

0.93

0.96 (0.93 to 0.98)

PRWHE function

10

12

0.85

0.87

0.93 (0.90 to 0.96)

  1. NRS pain 0 to 10 (0 = no pain), PRWHE pain and function 0 to 50, and PRWHE total 0 to 100 (0= optimal situation)
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