Rheumatoid arthritis · Self-tracking tool

RAPID3: track your disease activity

RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3) is a quick, patient-reported measure of how active your rheumatoid arthritis is. It has three parts: how much difficulty you have with everyday activities, your pain, and how you are doing overall. It needs no joint examination or blood tests and takes under a minute. Complete it, save your result to track it over time, and print it for your appointment.

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iAnswer for the past week. For the activities, answer without help from another person. This tool runs entirely in your browser: nothing you enter is saved to a server or sent anywhere. Saving stores your result only in this browser, on this device.

Part 1. Everyday activities

0 = Without any difficulty1 = With some difficulty2 = With much difficulty3 = Unable to do

Part 2. Pain

How much pain have you had because of your arthritis in the past week?

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0 · no pain10 · pain as bad as it could be

Part 3. Overall

Considering all the ways your arthritis affects you, how are you doing overall in the past week?

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0 · very well10 · very poorly
Your RAPID3
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out of 30
0 · near remission30 · high activity
Answer all three parts above to see your score.
Function (0 to 10)
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Pain (0 to 10)
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Overall (0 to 10)
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About the score. RAPID3 runs from 0 to 30, where a higher number means more active disease from your point of view. It reflects how you are feeling and functioning, not the joint examination or blood tests, so your team will read it alongside those. Any single score is one data point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a treatment decision on its own. Pain, low mood, fatigue, and other conditions can all raise the score without meaning the arthritis itself is more active.

Your saved results

How the score is worked out

The 10 activity answers (each 0 to 3) are added up and divided by 3 to give a function score out of 10. That is added to your pain score (0 to 10) and your overall score (0 to 10), giving a total out of 30. As a guide, 0 to 3 is near remission, 3.1 to 6 is low activity, 6.1 to 12 is moderate activity, and above 12 is high activity.

Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID3), on an MDHAQ. Pincus T, Swearingen CJ, Bergman MJ, et al. Arthritis Care Res. 2008;59:1802 to 1808. Free for clinical and educational use. Reference for items and scoring: autoimmunecalc.com.

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