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Improving the assessment of children with JIA

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The assessment of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a challenge for the clinician, in particular with regard to the ability to elicit patients' subjective values. The development of a new tool that provides an efficient and thorough overview of a patient's status could provide an important step forward.

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Figure 1: The World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Function, Disability and Health provides a framework for describing the interdependence of health status, participation and function, and environmental and personal factors in determining health and disability.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, M5G 1X8, ON, Canada

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Luca, N., Feldman, B. Improving the assessment of children with JIA. Nat Rev Rheumatol 7, 442–444 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2011.99

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