A short breakfast meeting is being planned for Monday, October 27, 2008 at 6:15 � 0830 AM in San Francisco, CA. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the American College of Rheumatology JDM Working Group.
The International Myositis Classification Criteria Project, which is a multi-disciplinary international effort to develop new classification criteria for adult and juvenile myositis, is now open for data collection.
A short breakfast meeting is being planned for Saturday November 10, 2007 at 6:45 - 9:00 AM in Boston, MA. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the ACR JDM Working Group.
A short breakfast meeting is being planned for Tuesday November 14, 2006 at 0700 - 0900 in Washington, DC. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the ACR JDM Working Group.
A number of classification criteria for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and the major subgroups have been proposed over the last three decades. Unfortunately, most of these have been based on clinical impressions rather than data analyses, and none have been fully tested for sensitivity or specificity using appropriately powered studies against all the appropriate disease confounders.
A short breakfast meeting is being planned for Sunday November 13, 2005 at 0700 -0900 prior to the American College of Rheumatology meeting in San Diego, California. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the ACR JDM Working Group.
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) at the National Institutes of Health is sponsoring an international multi-center trial to be conducted in both adult and juvenile myositis.
IMACS is developing a Clinical Trial/Study Outcomes Data Repository which will capture IMACS core activity, damage and patient-reported outcome measures and related trial/study information.
As the result of a series of international consensus workshops, IMACS partially validated Preliminary Definitions of Improvement for Adult and Juvenile Myositis.
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