Three- and five-year outcomes of an inception cohort of Australian children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Background: To describe the 3- and 5-year outcomes of an inception cohort of Australian children with JIA for whom 1-year outcomes have previously been published.

Methods: Data regarding clinical outcomes of the original cohort of 134 patients at 3 and 5 years were sought. Relevant clinical features and medication exposures entered prospectively into an electronic record were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

The transition process for paediatric rheumatology clinic patients at a single tertiary paediatric rheumatology centre in Australia.

Aim: This study aimed to examine the transition process of paediatric rheumatology patients from the Monash Children's Hospital (MCH) in Melbourne in order to identify areas that could be improved.

Methods: Retrospective review of clinical data from the rheumatology database of paediatric rheumatology patients eligible for transition between January 2015 and September 2020.

Results: One hundred and sixty-five patients were included; 57 patients were transitioned.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis managed in the new millennium: one year outcomes of an inception cohort of Australian children.

Background: The advent of new treatments for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) has prompted interest in systematically studying the outcomes of patients treated in the 'modern era'. Such data provide both benchmarks for assessing local outcomes and important information for use in counselling families of newly diagnosed patients. While data are available for cohorts in Europe and North America, no such data exist for Australian patients.