Lisa G Rider, Rohit Aggarwal, Angela Pistorio, Nastaran Bayat, Brian Erman, Brian M Feldman, Adam M Huber, Rolando Cimaz, Rubén J Cuttica, Sheila Knupp de Oliveira, Carol B Lindsley, Clarissa A Pilkington, Marilynn Punaro, Angelo Ravelli, Ann M Reed, Kelly Rouster-Stevens, Annet van Royen-Kerkhof, Frank Dressler, Claudia Saad Magalhaes, Tamás Constantin, Joyce E Davidson, Bo Magnusson, Ricardo Russo, Luca Villa, Mariangela Rinaldi, Howard Rockette, Peter A Lachenbruch, Frederick W Miller, Jiri Vencovsky, Nicolino Ruperto
To develop response criteria for juvenile dermatomyositis (DM). We analysed the performance of 312 definitions that used core set measures from either the International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS) or the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) and were derived from natural history data and a conjoint analysis survey. They were further validated using data from the PRINTO trial of prednisone alone compared to prednisone with methotrexate or cyclosporine and the Rituximab in Myositis (RIM) trial...
May 2017: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases