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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 14.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2010 Jun;62(6):842–847. doi: 10.1002/acr.20123

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Relationship between the utilities per level per attribute and the actual level

Age: 1=80 years old; 2=50 years old; 3= 25 years old

Disease duration: 1=RA diagnosed 2 years ago; 2=5 years ago; 3=10 years ago

Clinical symptoms: 1=Pain, swelling, stiffness about somewhat better than previous visit; 2=the same as previous visit; 3= somewhat worse than previous visit (level 1 and 2 are switched for this graph)

Erosions: 1= No erosions on recent x-rays; 2= No progression of erosions over the past year; 3= Some progression of erosions over the past year

DAS: 1= DAS today is 2.0 (low); 2= DAS today is 3.0 (moderate); 3= DAS today is 3.8 (high)

Current treatment: 1=On first TNF inhibitor; 2= On second TNF inhibitor; 3=Failed all TNF inhibitors now on abatacept