Why Do Patients With Gout Not Take Allopurinol?
Yasaman EmadNicola DalbethJohn WeinmanTrudie ChalderKeith J PetriePublished in: The Journal of rheumatology (2022)
The major reasons behind the patient's decision not to take allopurinol relate to the desire to lead a normal life and the strategy of testing the treatment to see if they could reduce the dose without getting symptoms. These results provide some potentially modifiable targets for adherence interventions and some recommendations to clinicians about how to reframe ULT for patients in order to improve adherence.