Fig 1.
Flow diagram of participants’ selection.
1: Practicing rheumatologists, members of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology; 2: Random sample, stratified proportionally to the number of rheumatologists in each Brazilian geographic region.
Table 1.
Description of the study sample and comparison between respondents and nonrespondents.
Table 2.
Acute gout management: first choice drug(s) to treat an acute gouty attack in different scenarios (N = 309).
Table 3.
Management of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) during an acute gouty attack and anti-inflammatory prophylaxis of gout attacks.
Table 4.
Multivariate-adjusted predictors of concordance between reported acute gout management and the 2012 ACR gout guidelines.
Table 5.
Urate-lowering therapy (ULT).
Table 6.
Multivariate-adjusted predictors of concordance between reported urate-lowering therapy management and the 2012 ACR gout guidelines.