The Jones Criteria for the Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever: Updated but Not Abandoned

In June 1944, the Journal of the America Medical Association (JAMA) published "The Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever" by T. Duckett Jones.1 Eventually known as the "Jones criteria," these benchmarks became the fundamental cornerstones for the clinical diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). Since then, every medical student and most other primary health care professionals have memorized the 5 cardinal manifestations of ARF outlined by Jones even as the disease itself came under the control of modern medical care in most developed countries worldwide.

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