Development of Preliminary Remission Criteria for Gout Using Delphi and 1000Minds Consensus Exercises.
Hugh de LautourWilliam John TaylorAde AdebajoRieke AltenRuben Burgos-VargasPeter ChapmanMarco A CimminoGeraldo da Rocha Castelar PinheiroRic DayLeslie R HarroldPhilip HelliwellMatthijs JanssenGail KerrArthur KavanaughDinesh KhannaPuja P KhannaChingtsai LinWorawit LouthrenooGeraldine McCarthyJanitzia Vazquez-MelladoTed R MikulsTuhina NeogiAlexis OgdieFernando Perez-RuizNaomi SchlesingerH Ralph SchumacherAnd Carlo Alberto ScirèJasvinder A SinghFrancisca SiveraOle SlotLisa K StampAnne-Kathrin TauscheRobert TerkeltaubTill UhligMart van de LaarDouglas WhiteHisashi YamanakaXuejun ZengNicola DalbethPublished in: Arthritis care & research (2017)
These consensus exercises have identified domains and provisional definitions for gout remission criteria. Based on the results of these exercises, preliminary remission criteria are proposed with domains of serum urate, acute flares, tophus, pain, and patient global assessment. These preliminary criteria now require testing in clinical data sets.