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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2010 Jul;62(7):950–959. doi: 10.1002/acr.20154

Table 4.

Minimal Clinically Important Differences Considering Certain Predicted Probabilities for Worsening or Improvement

Predicted probability 70% 80% 90%
Physician-rated Improvement
 VASMD −2.1 −2.9 −4.2
 ECLAM − 3 − 4 − 5
 SLEDAI − 6 − 8 − 12
 SLAM − 3 − 5 − 7
 BILAGLiang −14 − 19 − 28
 BILAGGladman − 5 − 7 − 10
 BILAGStoll − 8 − 11 − 14

Physician-rated Worsening
 VASMD + 1.6 + 2.1 + 2.8
 ECLAM + 3 + 4 + 6
 SLEDAI + 7 10 14
 SLAM + 3 + 5 + 7
 BILAGLiang + 13 + 19 + 27
 BILAGGladman + 5 + 6 + 9
 BILAGStoll + 7 + 10 + 15

For additional information please see footnotes for Table 1 and 3. Values are predicted changes of the disease activity scores based on discrimination or cluster analysis; rounding to the next integer was done (one decimal for VASMD).