[Practice guideline for patients with hyperuricemia/gout].
Yukai Huang, Kehu Yang, Shiheng Chen, Yong-Chang Xie, Cibo Huang, Yufeng Qing, D. He, Lijun Wu, Feng Zhan, X Q Wang, Yuqi Zhou, Qinglei Kong, Kang Wang, Naomi Schlesinger, Dong Xu, X J, Jieruo Gu
Abstract
Hyperuricemia/gout is a common metabolic disease in China, which is a serious threat to people's health. In clinical practice, the standardization of prevention and diagnosis and the rate of treat-to-target need to be improved. There is still a lack of education for the patients about the understanding of clinical guidelines, the disease knowledge and the importance of cooperating with doctors to carry out diagnosis and treatment. From the most concerned issues of the patients, we established the hyperuricemia/gout patient practice guideline working group with multidisciplinary physicians and patients. Seventeen opinions, as the hyperuricemia/gout patient practice guidelines, are proposed in accordance with the relevant principles of the "WHO guidelines development manual" , and with the international normative process, aiming to improve the patients compliance, improve the level of health management of the disease.