ReviewTherapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease2018
Effectiveness of healthcare educational and behavioral interventions to improve gout outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Impact of lifestyle factors and dietary patterns on serum uric acid levels and disease activity in gout: a systematic review.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Practice Guidelines for the Value Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacy Services (version 2).Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- 'We gout your back': a qualitative study to co-design educational gout resources with Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Effect on consumers' sustainable purchase intention of dietary supplement purine labeling.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Leveraging Habits to Improve Adherence to Gout Medications: A Qualitative Study.ACR open rheumatology · 2024Article
- Patient Experience with Chronic Refractory Gout and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life: Literature Review and Qualitative Analysis.Rheumatology and therapy · 2024Article
- Urate-lowering therapy, serum urate, inflammatory biomarkers, and renal function in patients with gout following pegloticase discontinuation.Arthritis research & therapy · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among patients with diabetes mellitus and hyperuricemia toward disease self-management.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- What are the core recommendations for gout management in first line and specialist care? Systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.BMC rheumatology · 2023Article
- A multi-step approach to develop a "storytelling" intervention to improve patient gout knowledge and improve outpatient follow-up.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2023Article
- Beliefs of rheumatologists and general practitioners on urate lowering therapy: a cross-sectional study.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2023Article
- Persistence with urate-lowering therapy in Australia: A longitudinal analysis of allopurinol prescriptions.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022Article
- Using natural language processing to classify social work interventions.The American journal of managed care · 2021Review
- Better outcomes for patients with gout.Inflammopharmacology · 2020Article
- Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Allopurinol in Achieving and Sustaining Target Serum Urate in a US Veterans Affairs Gout Cohort.The Journal of rheumatology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to systematically review the effectiveness of healthcare behavioral and education interventions for gout patients on clinical outcomes.
methodsWe searched multiple databases to identify trials or observational studies of educational or behavioral interventions in gout. Risk of bias was assessed with the Cochrane tool for randomized control trials (RCTs) and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for observational studies. We estimated odds ratios (ORs) for categorical and standardized mean difference (SMD) for continuous measures using a random-effects model.
resultsOverall, eight (five RCTs and three observational) studies met the inclusion criteria and examined pharmacist-led interventions (
conclusionEducational and behavioral interventions can improve gout outcomes in the short-intermediate term. Randomized trials are needed to assess its impact on long-term gout outcomes.
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