Paediatric rheumatologists do not score the physician's global assessment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis disease activity in the same way.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the heterogeneity in factors affecting physician's global assessment of disease activity (PhGA) and in PhGA scoring of multiple JIA patient's case scenarios.

Methods

An electronic web-based questionnaire of factors potentially considered in PhGA was sent worldwide to members of PRINTO and the Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network (PR-COIN). The respondents were asked to rate from 0 to 100 the relevance of 17 factors possibly affecting PhGA scoring and to derive a PhGA score of 17 detailed JIA patient cases. The median and interquartile range was used to measure the heterogeneity in the scoring. To demonstrate the consistency among the PhGA scores of the patient cases provided by multiple physicians, we assessed the inter-rater reli

SUBMITTER: Backstrom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10547524 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature