Predicting Which Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Will Not Attain Early Remission with Conventional Treatment: Results from the ReACCh-Out Cohort.

CONCLUSION: Although the model did not meet our a priori performance threshold (c-index > 0.70), it identified 3 times more subjects with low chance of remission than did JIA category alone, and it may serve as a benchmark for assessing value added by future laboratory/imaging biomarkers.
PMID: 30647178 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: J Rheumatol - January 15, 2019 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Guzman J, Henrey A, Loughin T, Berard RA, Shiff NJ, Jurencak R, Huber AM, Oen K, Gerhold K, Feldman BM, Scuccimarri R, Houghton K, Chédeville G, Morishita K, Lang B, Dancey P, Rosenberg AM, Barsalou J, Bruns A, Watanabe Duffy K, Benseler S, Duffy CM, Tuc Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research