Transition matrix of Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) scores from 13 279 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 56 256 questionnaires
| Initial HAQ score | HAQ scores six months later* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | Total | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | ||
| *% is probability (as a percentage) of having the HAQ score in the column headings, given the initial HAQ score from column 1. HAQ scores are rounded to 0.5 for ease in reading the table. | ||||||||
| Data are from the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases. | ||||||||
| 0.0 | 71.5 | 23.6 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100 |
| 0.5 | 18.6 | 53.9 | 23.1 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 100 |
| 1.0 | 2.6 | 20.8 | 51.3 | 22.6 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 100 |
| 1.5 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 20.7 | 55.1 | 19.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 100 |
| 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 23.5 | 60.8 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 100 |
| 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 4.7 | 30.4 | 58.1 | 5.4 | 100 |
| 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 31.4 | 62.7 | 100 |
| Total | 15.5 | 19.6 | 21.1 | 21.6 | 16.0 | 5.4 | 0.8 | 100 |