title: Gout Classification Criteria: Update and Implications.
abstract: Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, with a rising prevalence and incidence worldwide. There has been a resurgence in gout research, fueled, in part, by a number of advances in pharmacologic therapy for gout. The conduct of clinical trials and other observational research in gout requires a standardized and validated means of assembling well-defined groups of patients with gout for such research purposes. Recently, an international collaborative effort that involved a data-driven process with state-of-the art methodology supported by the American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism led to publication of new gout classification criteria.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, X building, Suite 200, 650 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
authors.forename: Ana Beatriz
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Vargas-Santos
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, X building, Suite 200, 650 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. tneogi@bu.edu.
authors.forename: Tuhina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Neogi
mesh_terms: D006073:Gout / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015995:Prevalence; D012219:Rheumatology
keywords: Classification criteria; Conjoint analysis; Gout