From: Diagnostic value of a 3-day course of prednisolone in patients with possible rheumatoid arthritis – the TryCort study
Cut-off of subjective improvement
Pilot phase
Validation phase
Sensitivitya
Specificity
Sensitivity
20%
93.3%
37.5%
79.2%
41.7%
30%
80.0%
66.7%
76.6%
58.3%
40%
73.3%
66.0%
81.3%
50%
60.0%
57.5%
91.7%