Health care utilization in patients with gout: a prospective multicenter cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

All published studies of health care utilization in gout have been cross-sectional to date, and most used a patient-reported diagnosis of gout. Our objective was to assess health care utilization and its predictors in patients with physician-confirmed gout in a prospective cohort study.

Methods

In a multi-center prospective cohort study of U.S. veterans with rheumatologist-confirmed gout (N = 186; two centers), we assessed patient self-reported overall and gout-specific health care utilization with the Gout Assessment Questionnaire (GAQ) every 3-months for a 9-month period. Comparisons were made using the student's t test or the chi-square, Wilcoxon rank sum test or Fisher exact test, as appropriate. Mixed effects Poisson regression was used to assess potential co

SUBMITTER: Singh JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5452408 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature