The girls were tried, in May , 1982 on sixteen joint counts of burglary, theft, and arson.
We also use patient-derived joint counts.
The joint counts displayed skewed distributions.
DAS 28 = disease activity score using the 28 joint counts.
Data gathered included joint counts for swelling and tenderness.
Square root transformation reduced skewness from tender, swollen and painful joint counts, but not from the deformed joint counts.
The mean RA duration, tender joint counts, swollen joint counts and DAS28 scores were comparable between groups.
Unfortunately, carefully designed studies have repeatedly shown poor reproducibility of physician-assessed swollen joint counts and active joint counts.
Due to the high concordance of physician and biometrician joint counts, we used the biometrician derived joint counts as the gold standard reference.
Concordance of remission rates was compared using either patient self-assessed joint counts or joint counts performed by a physician or biometrician.
Figure 2 shows changes in tender joint counts, swollen joint counts, GH-VAS, CRP, DAS28-CRP, and CDAI at 0, 24, and 52 weeks.
