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Lack of provider visits associated with a gout diagnosis prior to ULD initiation was associated with non-adherence.
For the ascertainment of incident gout patients, we also excluded all individuals with a gout diagnosis before the start date (considered as prevalent gout) from the study population.
In both groups, patients with a higher number of visits with a gout diagnosis had higher PPVs of meeting the criteria cutoffs for all criteria evaluated.
Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey reveal that of 3.9 million outpatient visits with a gout diagnosis that occurred in the US during 2002, only 10% were made by African Americans vs 82% by Caucasians [ 7].
We identified patients (≥18 years of age) cared for in the setting of a multispecialty group practice with documentation of at least one health care encounter associated with a gout diagnosis during the period 2008 2009 (n = 1346).
Caucasians with a gout visit were more likely to have private insurance (46%) compared to African Americans (11%; p < 0.001) and, importantly, African Americans were less likely than Caucasians to receive ULT with allopurinol (odds ratio [OR] 0.18; 95% CI, 0.04-0.78; p = 0.02) [ 7].
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Sensitivity was the fraction of those with a gout-related visit according to the gold standard that were correctly identified as positive by the VA database definition.
It was at this time that Pitt first appeared in Parliament swathed in bandages, on crutches, and with a huge gout boot on his foot, parading his illness.
The mITT population included 212 patients with a mean gout duration of 15 years.
To increase the sensitivity and specificity of the gout identification algorithm, a patient was only classified as a gout patient if two distinct medical encounters with a diagnosis of gout were present in the record.
Patients with a current acute gout flare or who are within 14 days of the resolution of a gout flare.
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