Criteria for the New Zealand Score.a
| Clinical features | Maximum score allotted to feature |
|---|---|
| 1. Pain | 40 |
| 2. Functional activity | |
| Walking | 10 |
| Activities of daily living (washing, dressing, etc) | 10 |
| 3. Movement and deformity (based on clinical examination and x-ray) | 20b |
| 4. Other factors | |
| Multiple joint disease | 10 |
| Ability to work, meet caring commitments, live independently | 10 |
↵a This table is adapted from Hadorn DC, Holmes AC. The New Zealand priority criteria project. Part 1: Overview. BMJ 1997; 314: 131–134 (Table 2). Amended and reproduced with kind permission from the BMJPublishing Group.
↵b As this feature was only available at baseline, for consistency it was not used here; scores were therefore out of 80 both at baseline and follow-up.