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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Specialty: Immunology/Rheumatology
