The Swedish RAND-36 Health Survey - reliability and responsiveness assessed in patient populations using Svensson’s method for paired ordinal data

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 6 Evaluation of change in the Health change item using Svensson’s method for the patient groups

Result	Dialysis patients (Reliability)				Cardiac rehabilitation patients (Responsiveness)
PA	64%	SE	95% CI		34%	SE	95% CI
RP	− 0.001	0.04	− 0.08	0.07	0.25	0.07	0.12	0.38
RC	−0.035	0.06	−0.15	0.08	−0.18	0.07	−0.32	− 0.04
RV	0.08	0.02	0.03	0.12	0.34	0.08	0.18	0.49

SE Standard Error, CI Confidential Interval, PA Percentage Agreement, RP Relative Position, RC Relative Concentration, RV Relative Rank Variation. Significant values are given in bold