Children's Hospital of Western Ontario

Disability in pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases: A systematic review and a single center experience

OBJECTIVES: Toward development of a pediatric IBD disability index (PIDI), we aimed to review the literature on disability in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) and to estimate disability rates in a pediatric inception cohort. METHODS: A systematic review identified stud...

Incidence, Risk Factors and Management of Adverse Events in Contemporary Real‐World Care of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

OBJECTIVE: We describe the frequency, risk factors, severity, and management of actionable and serious adverse events (AAE and SAE) in children with newly diagnosed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in Canada. METHODS: We enrolled patients within 3 months of JIA diagnosis in th...

Dr. Tsai et al reply

We appreciate the interest of Drs. Wang and Qu¹ in our work,² and their call for more family-friendly metrics to help convey meaningful quality of life improvements in juvenile idiopathic arthritis ( JIA). After considering the different ideas suggested in t...