This is an encyclopedic textbook covering the major areas of interest to pediatric rheumatologists.
As such it suffers from the problems of any encyclopedic work. While virtually every …

Offering up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of disease progression, diagnosis, management,
and prognosis, Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology is the definitive reference in the field…

… Lindsley, MD: University of Kansas Medical Center and University of Kansas, Kansas City;
6Lauren M. Pachman, MD: Children’s Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, …

Objective To develop, validate, and determine the measurement characteristics of a
quantitative tool for assessing the severity of muscle involvement in children with idiopathic …

Objective To examine the measurement characteristics of the Childhood Myositis Assessment
Scale (CMAS) in children with juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (juvenile IIM), …

Pediatric chronic pain continues to be relatively underinvestigated and undertreated. The
objective of the present cross-sectional study was to investigate the emotional distress …

The standardized assessment of pediatric pain coping strategies may substantively contribute
to the conceptual understanding of individual differences in pediatric pain perception and …

Objective To use juvenile dermatomyositis (DM) survey data and expert opinion to develop
a small number of consensus treatment protocols, which reflect current initial treatment of …

Objective. To determine the reliability, content validity, and responsiveness of physician
global assessments of disease activity and damage in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory …

… Lindsley and Petty and sent to all interested attendees and subsequently to any requesting
physician. The questionaires were collected over a 5-year period, from 1991 to 1996. …