Factors for Consideration by Pediatric Rheumatologists When Scoring the Physician Global Assessment (PhGA) of Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: First Step Toward an Internal Consensus

The Physician global assessment (PhGA) is a tool used nearly ubiquitously by pediatric rheumatologists for assessment of patient disease activity status. However, this tool lacks standardization in its scoring. This survey aimed to identify score influencing factors, along with inclusion or exclusion of extra-articular manifestations and imaging, when scoring the PhGA in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).