The results reported herein suggest that PRO indices may be useful clinical tools, complementary to other measures, for assessing RA disease activity.
The thresholds with the 75th percentile approach were 2.0 for the RA Impact of Disease (RAID) score, 2.5 for the PRO-CLinical ARthritis Activity (PRO-CLARA) index, and 1.0 for the Recent-Onset Arthritis Disability (ROAD) questionnaire.
Based on Kakwani and Pernia ([2000]) pro-poor index, Kakwani et al. ([2003]) further developed a pro-poor index, the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate (PEGR) index, that adjusts for the change in the growth rate.
Algebraically, the PEGR is given by the product of Kakwani and Pernia ([2000]) pro-poor index and the growth in average income.
Thus, the Ravallion and Chen ([2003]) pro-poor index can be calculated as the mean of the growth rate of each percentile of the income distribution up to the headcount index, divided by the headcount index.
Table 12 gives the estimates of the growth in average income and six pro-poor indices.
However, the results on the relative pro-poor indices indicate that reduced chemical sourcing costs are not relatively pro-poor.
Turning our attention to the reduced chemical sourcing costs (Scenario 4), the absolute pro-poor indices are positive but not significant.
Another was a suggestion on the rumour-mill that Tweetdeck's backers, among them PRO Founders and Index Ventures, had done a switcher-rooney style deal to take on shares in UberMedia in exchange for UberMedia bringing Tweetdeck in-house – no doubt for a mix of cash and shares.
Changes from baseline in components of the ACR and PRO (HA Qdisability index, EQ-5D, GHVAS and PGAD) were analysed with a two-way analysis of covariance with treatments and centre as factors and the baseline as a covariate.
