Nationwide Pediatric Arthritis Trial

Twenty-one sites across the USA will participate in the trial. All sites have established expertise in juvenile arthritis research and a track record of successful recruitment for prior clinical trials. Nine of the centers are members of PEDSnet, a pediatric clinical research network, that will be leveraged for the enhanced recruitment and conduct of the trial. PEDSnet is one of 8 clinical research networks that constitute PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network [22 (link)]. Three additional participating centers are members of PCORnet. PCORnet seeks to improve the nation’s capacity to conduct clinical research by bringing together these clinical research networks to create a large, highly representative, national patient-centered network that supports more efficient clinical trials and observational studies.