Paediatric rheumatic disease: Defining clinically inactive disease in juvenile dermatomyositis

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 638-639

  Luca, Nadia J ^a   Feldman, Brian M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHILHOOD MYOSITIS ASSESSMENT SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LEVEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL TRIALS ORGANIZATION CRITERIA; PHYSICIAN GLOBAL ASSESSMENT SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHILD; DERMATOMYOSITIS; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84868466841     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.165     Document Type: Short Survey

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