Table 1.
Support measures for chronically ill patients investigated in this study.
Table 2.
Population characteristics.
Table 3.
BRADA and HAQ scores.
Fig 1.
ROC curves comparing BRADA and HAQ as predictors for the need of support measures in patients with RA.
Rheumatologists evaluated their patients’ need for each of the nine support measures currently available in Belgium. Receiver Operator Characteristics Curves (ROC) comparing the performance of the BRADA questionnaire scores with the HAQ in predicting the need for support measures, taking the positive recommendation of the rheumatologist as a reference. These ROCs show that BRADA and HAQ perform comparably well for all support measures evaluated.
Table 4.
Area under the curve of Receiver operator curves comparing the performance of BRADA and HAQ scores in predicting the need for support measures in patients with RA.