Table 3.

PASS cutpoints with 2 methodological approaches for health-related quality of life and health status measures after 3 months of DMARD treatment in patients with RA, PsA, and AS.

	75% Sensitivity Cutpoint	80% Specificity Cutpoint	Receiver-operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves
	75% Sensitivity Cutpoint	80% Specificity Cutpoint	Area Under the Curve	95% CI
EQ-5D
RA	0.62	0.69	0.80	0.77–0.83
PsA	0.69	0.73	0.78	0.72–0.84
AS	0.69	0.69	0.82	0.77–0.87
SF-6D
RA	0.60	0.65	0.79	0.78–0.81
PsA	0.60	0.65	0.80	0.76–0.82
AS	0.64	0.66	0.85	0.81–0.88
Patient global VAS
RA	37	31	0.82	0.81–0.84
PsA	38	30	0.80	0.77–0.83
AS	32	28	0.84	0.81–0.88
Pain VAS
RA	36	27	0.79	0.78–0.81
PsA	35	25	0.78	0.75–0.81
AS	28	26	0.85	0.82–0.88
MHAQ
RA	0.63	0.33	0.75	0.73–0.77
PsA	0.50	0.14	0.75	0.71–0.78
AS	0.50	0.13	0.76	0.72–0.80

PASS: Patient Acceptable Symptom State; DMARD: disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; RA: rheumatoid arthritis; PsA: psoriatic arthritis; AS: ankylosing spondylitis; MHAQ: Modified Health Assessment Questionnaire; VAS: visual analog scale; EQ-5D: EuroQol-5 Dimensions; SF-6D: Short-Form-6 Dimensions.