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The assessment of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) has been traditionally focused on disease-centered outcomes, such as disease activity, clinical remission, articular and extra-articular damage, and results of laboratory indicators of systemic inflammation [1–3].

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Ravelli, A. (2016). Specific Issues. In: Handbook of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08102-1_8

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