Quality of care for gout in the US needs improvement

Quality of care for gout in the US needs improvement

Objective To examine evidence‐based quality indicators (QIs) in US veterans with gout diagnosis, and to examine the effect of demographics, heath care utilization/access, comorbid conditions, or physican characteristics as predictors of quality of gout care. Methods Using the Minneapolis Veterans Af...

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Veröffentlicht in:Arthritis and rheumatism 2007-06, Vol.57 (5), p.822-829
Hauptverfasser: Singh, Jasvinder A., Hodges, James S., Toscano, John P., Asch, Steven M.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Aged
Allopurinol - therapeutic use
Biological and medical sciences
Blood Cell Count
Colchicine - therapeutic use
Comorbidity
Creatine Kinase - blood
Diseases of the osteoarticular system
Evidence-Based Medicine
Female
Gout
Gout - drug therapy
Gout - epidemiology
Gout Suppressants - therapeutic use
Guideline Adherence - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Minnesota - epidemiology
Miscellaneous
Other metabolic disorders
Physician adherence
Practice Guidelines as Topic - standards
Professional Practice - standards
Professional Practice - statistics & numerical data
Purines and pyrimidines (gout, hyperuricemia...)
Quality indicators
Quality Indicators, Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Quality of care
Quality of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Renal Insufficiency - blood
Renal Insufficiency - diagnosis
Uric Acid - blood
Veterans
Veterans - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:Objective To examine evidence‐based quality indicators (QIs) in US veterans with gout diagnosis, and to examine the effect of demographics, heath care utilization/access, comorbid conditions, or physican characteristics as predictors of quality of gout care. Methods Using the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs electronic medical record system, we identified a cohort of veterans receiving medication to treat gout between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2003, and evaluated 3 recently published evidence‐based QIs for gout management: QI 1 = allopurinol dose
ISSN:0004-3591
0893-7524
1529-0131
1529-0123
DOI:10.1002/art.22767