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01-07-2012 | Poster presentation
Disease characteristics and medication use in a multicenter cohort of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA): preliminary analyses from the CARRAnet registry
Authors:
Sarah Ringold, Timothy Beukelman, Esi M Morgan DeWitt, Marc Natter, Peter A Nigrovic, Yukiko Kimura, CARRAnet Investigators
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
The CARRAnet Registry, a multicenter registry of children with rheumatic diseases in the U.S. organized by the Childhood Arthritis Rheumatology and Research Alliance (CARRA), began enrollment in May 2010. Our aims were to describe the characteristics of children with JIA enrolled into the registry to date and to identify characteristics associated with the use of biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). …