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Table 3 Criteria for defining clinical inactive disease in oligoarticular (persistent and extended), polyarticular (RF+ and -), and systemic JIA*

From: Clinical outcome measures in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Inactive disease

- No joints with active arthritis

- No fever, rash, serositis, splenomegaly, or generalized lymphadenopathy attributable to JIA

- No active uveitis as defined by the SUN Working Group [28]

- ESR or CRP level within normal limits in the laboratory where tested or, if elevated, not attributable to JIA

- Physician’s global assessment of disease activity score of best possible on the scale used

- Duration of morning stiffness of 15 min

  1. JIA juvenile idiopathic arthritis, RF rheumatoid factor, ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate, CRP C-reactive protein
  2. *Wallace [29]