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Table 1 Demographics of patients and raters presented as number and percentage unless specified otherwise

From: Skin model for improving the reliability of the modified Rodnan skin score for systemic sclerosis

Characteristic

Number N (%)

A. Patient characteristics

N = 8

Age in years, mean ± SD (min–max)

59.0 ± 3.5 (55–64)

Duration of disease in years, mean ± SD (min–max)

5.8 ± 3.9 (0.7–13.9)

Sex female

3 (37.5)

 Male

5 (62.5)

Subset dcSSc

7 (87.5)

 lcSSc

1 (12.5)

B. Rater characteristics

N = 10

Age in years, mean ± SD (min–max)

33.7 ± 7.7 (25–48)

Sex: female

7 (70)

 Male

3 (30)

Type of raters

 

 Rheumatologists

2 (20)

 Fellowship in rheumatology

3 (30)

 Internists

3 (30)

 Nurse

2 (20)

  1. SD standard deviation