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Table 4 Rank ordering of instrument performance by various discriminative tests for the known group comparisons

From: Parsimonious and efficient assessment of health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis research: validation of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument

  

Effect Size

RE

ROC (AUC)

Self Rated Health

1

AQoL (-1.00)

AQoL (1.00)

AQoL (0.76)

 

2

WOMAC (0.92)

WOMAC (0.84)

WOMAC (0.75)

 

3

PCS (-0.84)

PCS (0.71)

PCS (0.67)

 

4

VAS pain (0.79)

VAS pain (0.63)

VAS pain (0.65)

OWL v Community

1

WOMAC (-0.79)

WOMAC (1.57)

WOMAC (0.70)

group

2

VAS pain (0.74)

VAS pain (1.03)

VAS pain (0.70)

 

3

AQoL (0.66)

AQoL (1.00)

AQoL (0.67)

 

4

PCS (0.44)

PCS (0.46)

PCS (0.64)

 

5

MCS (0.24)

MCS (0.13)

MCS (0.56)

  1. Note: Comparison groups were Self-rated good vs. poor health and Orthopedic waiting list (OWL) vs. Community based group.