Whither the Jones Criteria?

Remember the Jones Criteria?

Proceedings of the Jones Criteria workshop.

Diagnosis of rheumatic fever: Beyond Jones criteria

It is estimated that 15.6 million people are affected worldwideby acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and 3 lakhs out of 5 lakhsindividuals that acquire ARF every year go on to developrheumatic heart disease (RHD). ARF follows 0.3–3% of casesof group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) pharyngitis.As many as 39% of persons with ARF may develop varyingdegrees of pancarditis as...

T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture. The Jones criteria and the challenges of clinimetrics.

THE MEDICAL IMMORTALITY of being commemorated with an eponym has been achieved by physicians and pathologists who discover or describe some ailment, such as Addison's disease and von Recklinghausen's disease, and by surgeons who have invented operative procedures and instruments. For T. Duckett Jones, an eponymic title was attained with a different achievement: He created a set of rules for mak...

Modified Kenneth Jones criteria for diagnosing tuberculous meningitis in children.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate accuracy of modified Kenneth Jones scoring criteria (MKJSC) as a screening tool to diagnose tuberculous meningitis in children. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Paediatric Medicine, Unit-I, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, from May 2006 to March 2007. METHODOLOGY A total of 100 children admitted through emergency in Paediatric Med...