Lack of Concordance in Interrater Scoring of the Provider's Global Assessment of Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis With Low Disease Activity

ConclusionThe low ICC suggests poor agreement among providers scoring the PGA in JIA patients with low or no disease activity. Given the ubiquitous use of the PGA in classification and response criteria for JIA and other pediatric rheumatic diseases, substantive efforts are needed to bring about greater uniformity in scoring of global disease activity by providers.

Source: Arthritis Care and Research - December 6, 2017 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Janalee Taylor, Edward H. Giannini, Daniel J. Lovell, Bin Huang, Esi M. Morgan Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research