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Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of nurse-led care involving education and engagement of patients and a treat-to-target urate-lowering strategy versus usual care for gout: a randomised controlled trial

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Nurse-led gout care is efficacious and cost-effective compared with usual care and the benefits of educating and engaging patients in gout management are illustrated and reaffirm the importance of a treat-to-target urate-lowering treatment strategy to improve patient-centred outcomes.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2018-10-20 and is currently open access. It has received 188 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cost effectiveness & Quality-adjusted life year.

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Global epidemiology of gout: prevalence, incidence, treatment patterns and risk factors.

TL;DR: Management of gout continues to be poor, with fewer than one half of patients receiving definitive ‘curative’ urate-lowering therapy, and rates of non-persistence are high.
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2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout.

TL;DR: To provide guidance for the management of gout, including indications for and optimal use of urate‐lowering therapy (ULT), treatment of g out flares, and lifestyle and other medication recommendations.
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Treat-to-Target in Gout Management? Comment on the Article by FitzGerald et al.

TL;DR: The scientific review team /guideline authors missed key evidence pertaining to their recommendation of "treat to target" serum uric acid (SU) levels.
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Cardiovascular risk in inflammatory arthritis: rheumatoid arthritis and gout

TL;DR: Clinical guidelines and implementation of cardiovascular risk management in daily clinical practice, as well as unmet needs and areas for further investigation, will be discussed.
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Gout – An update of aetiology, genetics, co-morbidities and management

TL;DR: Gout is an increasingly common chronic disorder of urate crystal deposition that manifests as flares of acute inflammatory arthritis that is more common in men than women prior to menopause due to the uricosuric effects of oestrogen, but afterMenopause the incidence of gout rises substantially in women.
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The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.

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TL;DR: A 36-item short-form survey designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study is constructed.
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Preliminary criteria for the classification of the acute arthritis of primary gout

TL;DR: The American Rheumatism Association sub-committe on classification criteria for gout analyzed data from more than 700 patients with gout, pseudogout, rheumatoid arthritis, or septic arthritis to establish criteria for classifying a patient as having gout.
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