Still’s disease

Published on 02/04/2015 by admin

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135 Still’s disease

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What do you know about the American College of Rheumatology Pedi Score?

The American College of Rheumatology Pediatric core set of disease-activity measures (ACR Pedi 30) in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis consists of:

Patients with an ACR Pedi 30 response could also have worsening of 30% or more in no more than 1 of the 6 response variables. The Percent Improvement Index, a continuous variable, is calculated as the mean of the percentage changes from baseline in each core set of disease-activity measures for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, with negative values indicating improvement and positive values set to 0, indicating no improvement.