Jones Criteria for Acute Rheumatic Fever Diagnosis
Diagnoses acute rheumatic fever based on major and minor criteria.
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Note: As of 2015, the Jones Criteria have been updated to include the use of doppler echocardiography. See AHA's update.
Dr. T. Duckett Jones
About the creator
Thomas Duckett Jones, MD, (d. 1954) was the director of research in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at the House of the Good Samaritan in Boston for 20 years. He worked clinically at Massachusetts General Hospital and was on faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jones was appointed to the inaugural National Advisory Heart Council and also served as vice-president of the American Heart Association, chairman of the AHA's Council on Rheumatic Fever, and president-elect of the National Health Council.
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Content Contributors
- Derek Tam, MD, MPH
- Hyunjoo Lee, MD
- Max Berger, MD
