Table 3.

Pearson correlation of the variables studied for intensification of treatment at 6 months.

	TJC	SJC	ESR	Patient Global Assessment	HAQ-DI	Pain Today	Physician Global Assessment	DAS28
TJC	—	0.660	0.133	0.429	0.421	0.422	0.624	0.519
SJC	0.660	—	0.176	0.316	0.260	0.324	0.676	0.444
ESR	0.133	0.176	—	0.145	0.240	0.239	0.219	0.609
Patient global assessment	0.429	0.316	0.145	—	0.497	0.748	0.385	0.515
HAQ-DI	0.421	0.260	0.240	0.497	—	0.561	0.387	0.402
Pain today	0.422	0.324	0.239	0.748	0.561	—	0.405	0.452
Physician global assessment	0.624	0.676	0.219	0.385	0.387	0.405	—	0.468
DAS28	0.519	0.444	0.609	0.515	0.402	0.452	0.468	—