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Other outcome data collected included the health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) disability index and Keitel function test (KTF) score.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The reliability of the hardness sensor was excellent, with high intraobserver and interobserver intraclass correlation coefficients (0.97; 0.96), which was higher than MRSS (0.86; 0.74). Interobserver reproducibility of hardness sensor was only poor in abdomen (0.38), yet for durometer it was poor in face (0.11) and abdomen (0.33). The hardness sensor score provided a greater dynamic evaluation range than MRSS. Total hardness sensor score correlated well with MRSS (r=0.90, p&lt;0.001), total durometer score (r=0.95, p&lt;0.001), HAQ disability index (r=0.70, p&lt;0.001) and KTF score (r=0.66, p&lt;0.001). 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