Description

Consolaro et al developed 3 Juvenile Arthritis Activity Scores (JADAS) with different numbers of joints counted. The simplest version was the JADAS-10. The authors are from multiple institutions in Italy.


Patient selection: juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

 

Parameters:

(1) number of joints affected, up to a maximum of 10

(2) physician global assessment on a 10 cm VAS scale

(3) patient or parent global assessment on a 10 cm VAS scale

(4) ESR in mm in first hour, scored to give points from 0 to 10

 

points for joints affected =

= MIN(10, (number of joints affected)

 

ESR

Points Assigned

< 20

0

20 to 120

((ESR)-20)/10

> 120

10

 

total score =

= SUM(points for all 4 parameters)

 

Interpretation:

• minimum score: 0

• maximum score: 40

• The higher the score the more severe the disease.


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