Quality of life and quality of care for patients with gout

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-160

  Singh, Jasvinder A ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BENZBROMARONE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; MERCAPTOPURINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROBENECID; SULFINPYRAZONE; URICOSURIC AGENT; XANTHINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; ANTIGOUT AGENT; URIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; GOUT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICATION ERROR; MONITORING; MYOPATHY; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALLOPURINOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URIC ACID;

EID: 65549102181     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-009-0022-4     Document Type: Review

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