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Table 1

From: Trends in paediatric rheumatology referral times and disease activity indices over a ten-year period among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from the childhood arthritis prospective study

 

2001-2004

2005-2006

2007-2008

2009-2011

P value

N (1066)

285

265

306

210

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Time between symptom onset and 1st PRh, weeks

22.7 (11.9, 40.1)

23.5 (12.1, 52.7)

24.7 (12, 58.2)

23.1 (13.2, 50.1)

0.28

% seen within 10 weeks

20.5%

21%

20%

19%

0.66

Time from referral to 1st PRh appointment, weeks

3.4 (1.2, 7.9)

4 (1.4, 7.3)

4.7 (1.4, 8)

4.3 (1.6, 8.7)

0.61

% seen within 4 weeks

58%

55%

49%

50%

0.02

AJC

2 (1, 4)

2 (1, 6)

2 (1, 5)

2 (1, 5)

0.82

JADAS

10.8 (7, 16.2)

12.1 (7.2, 20.2)

9.3 (4.4, 18.4)

10.4 (4, 10.6)

0.60

CHAQ

0.8 (0.1, 1.5)

0.9 (0.3, 1.5)

0.6 (0.1, 1.4)

0.6 (0.1, 1.3)

0.045

Oligoarticular pattern: Time (days) from 1st PRh to 1st IA steroid, median (IQR)

25.5 (9,65)

25 (7, 49)

19 (8, 48)

19 (9, 48)

0.04

% in MDA at 1 year

62

66

66

67

0.87

Time (days) from 1st PRh to 1st methotrexate, median (IQR)

27 (1, 79)

17 (1, 43)

5 (0, 17)

11 (0, 84)

0.03

% in MDA at 1 year

39

56

50

59

0.07

Time (days) from 1st PRh to 1st methotrexate, median (IQR)

37 (14, 78)

14 (9, 25)

15 (6, 24)

15 (13, 26)

0.07

% in MDA at 1 year

64

50

75

57

0.85