Remote patient-reported outcome measure triage score for monitoring disease activity and allocation of consultations in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Authors' conclusion
A remote triage score based on a composite score of pain, functional disability assessment, and SR-SJC can detect a sufficient proportion of patients with low disease activity who can be allocated to remote consultations.
Study context
- Population
- Outpatient clinic cohort of chronic RA patients at a large trainee hospital in the Netherlandsanalysed
- Participants
- 278 participants
- Exposure
- Remote triage score (Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) pain, functional disability and self-reported swollen joint count (SR-SJC)) vs RAID total score for classifying high vs low disease activity (DAS28-CRP)
- Outcome
- Discriminative accuracy for high vs low disease activity (DAS28-CRP)
Methodological detailssingle-centre, LASSO logistic regression, ROC analysis
- Single-centre
- LASSO logistic regression
- ROC analysis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Discrimination of low vs high disease activity (AUC)
| Group | AUC |
|---|---|
| Triage score | 0.88 (95% CI 0.84-0.92) |
Triage score
AUC0.88 (95% CI 0.84-0.92)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Low disease activity (prevalence)
- Proportion with low disease activity
- 77.2%
Original publication
Remote patient-reported outcome measure triage score for monitoring disease activity and allocation of consultations in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Scand J Rheumatol. Published 30 October 2024. doi:10.
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