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OBJECTIVE: To validate a new method to identify responders (relative effect per patient (REPP) >0.2) using the OMERACT-OARSI criteria as gold standard in a large multicentre sample. METHOD: The REPP ([score before - after treatment]/score before treatment) was calculated for 845 patients of a large multicenter European cohort study for THR. The patients with a REPP >0.2 were defined as responders. The responder rate was compared to the gold standard (OMERACT-OARSI criteria) using receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis for sensitivity, specificity and percentage of appropriately classified patients. RESULTS: With the criterion REPP>0.2 85.4% of the patients were classified as responders, applying the OARSI-OMERACT criteria 85.7%. The new method had 98.8% sensitivity, 94.2% specificity and 98.1% of the patients were correctly classified compared to the gold standard. CONCLUSION: The external validation showed a high sensitivity and also specificity of a new criterion to identify a responder compared to the gold standard method. It is simple and has no uncertainties due to a single classification criterion.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/j.joca.2015.10.012

Type

Journal article

Journal

Osteoarthritis cartilage

Publication Date

03/2016

Volume

24

Pages

480 - 483

Keywords

EUROHIP, OMERACT-OARSI, Outcome, REPP, Responder, THR, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip, Cohort Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Osteoarthritis, Hip, Pain Measurement, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, Treatment Outcome