Table 3 Comparison of methods
From: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis in two tertiary centres in the Western Cape, South Africa
Study | Setting | Method | No. patients | Time period of data collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Morocco 4 | Tertiary | Cross sectional prospective | 80 | 18 months |
Turkey 6 | Tertiary | Retrospective record review | 196 | |
PRINTO 2 | Tertiary | Multicentre case control cross sectional | 3167 | |
India 5 | Tertiary | Longitudional cohort | 235 | 11 years |
South Africa | Tertiary | Prospective cross sectional | 78 | 1 year |