Table 2.
Baseline Instrument Scores by Country
| US (N = 148) |
Canadian English (N = 66) |
Canadian French (N = 16) |
French (N = 18) |
German (N = 37) |
Italian (N = 22) |
Spanish (N = 24) |
Swedish (N = 9) |
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| ASQOL | Mean (SD) | 9.5 (4.4) | 11.4 (4.4) | 10.9 (3.6) | 10.5 (3.9) | 10.6 (3.7) | 12.1 (4.5) | 11.8 (4.1) | 7.2 (3.9) |
| Median (IQR) | 10.0 (6.0–10.0) |
12.5 (8.0–15.0) |
10.0 (9.3–12.8) |
11.5 (9.0–13.0) |
11.0 (9.0–14.0) |
12.5 (8.8–16.0) |
12.5 (9.0–15.0) |
7.0 (3.0–10.0) |
|
| Range | 1–18 | 0–18 | 2–17 | 2–17 | 2–18 | 3–17 | 3–18 | 3–14 | |
| % Scoring, min | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| % Scoring, max | 4.7 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0.0 | |
| Patient VAS* | Mean (SD) | 62.8 (21.5) | 68.8 (17.6) | 59.8 (22.6) | 51.8 (19.7) | 66.0 (18.9) | 69.9 (23.3) | 64.2 (18.6) | 45.7 (22.3) |
| Median (IQR) | 66.0 (50.3–79.0) |
69.5 (58.8–82.3) |
58.0 (46.5–82.5) |
46.5 (39.0–66.8) |
67.0 (54.0–81.5) |
78.0 (58.0–88.0) |
66.0 (45.0–79.0) |
38.0 (26.5–67.5) |
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| Range | 7–100 | 19–97 | 9–92 | 16–88 | 19–100 | 9–97 | 32–100 | 18–78 | |
| SF-36 Question 1# | Excellent (%) | 7 (4.7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Very Good (%) | 18 (12.2%) | 9 (13.6%) | 1 (6.3%) | 0 (0) | 1 (2.7%) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (44.4%) | |
| Good (%) | 73 (49.3%) | 22 (33.3%) | 3 (68.8%) | 7 (38.9%) | 5 (13.5%) | 1 (4.5%) | 3 (12.5%) | 2 (22.2%) | |
| Fair (%) | 38 (25.7%) | 25 (37.9%) | 11 (18.8%) | 8 (44.4%) | 22 (59.5%) | 10 (45.5%) | 10 (41.7%) | 1 (11.1%) | |
| Poor (%) | 11 (7.4%) | 10 (15.2%) | 1 (6.3%) | 3 (16.7%) | 9 (24.3%) | 11 (50.0%) | 11 (45.8%) | 2 (22.2%) |
*Patient VAS = Patient's Global Assessment of Disease Activity Visual Analogue Scale. #SF-36 Question 1: "In general, how would you say your health is: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, or Poor?"