Assessment of Primary Care Providers' Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Gout Management

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gout

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01151709

13808

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a questionnaire study aimed at learning about physicians' views on the treatment of Gout.

Full description

We seek to assess the knowledge, beliefs and reported treatment practices of primary care physicians with regard to gout.

Specifically, we will:

• Assess the knowledge and beliefs with regard to acute and chronic gout management based on published treatment recommendations.
• Characterize the individuals who have knowledge deficits in terms of age, specialty, number of patients seen with gout, and practice setting.
• Assess the reported treatment practices of primary care physicians for the acute and chronic management of gout.

Enrollment: 838 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• practicing primary care practitioner, either in family medicine or internal medicine,
• must be 18 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

• does not meet inclusion criteria

Trial design

838 participants in 1 patient group

physicians

Description:

primary care practitioners, both family practice and internal medicine physicians from a random sample of providers nationwide