TY - JOUR T1 - Primary Care Diagnosis of Gout Compared to a Primary Care Diagnostic Rule for Gout and to Classification Criteria JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 1542 LP - 1542 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.190495 VL - 46 IS - 11 AU - LORRAINE WATSON AU - SARA MULLER AU - EDWARD RODDY Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/46/11/1542.1.abstract N2 - To the Editor:We read with interest the recent study by Dehlin and colleagues1, investigating the validity of a gout diagnosis in primary care. We have also investigated how a primary care diagnosis of gout compares to a primary care diagnostic rule for gout and to classification criteria. Our objective was to determine the proportion of patients with a primary care diagnosis of gout who fulfilled the primary care diagnostic rule by Janssens, et al for acute gouty arthritis2 and the 1977 American Rheumatism Association (ARA) criteria for the classification of acute arthritis of primary gout3.Participants with gout undergoing followup as part of a prospective observational cohort study4 were sent a postal questionnaire, which included questions about clinical features of gout and comorbidities required to assess fulfillment of the Janssens diagnostic rule2 … Address correspondence to L. Watson, Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. E-mail: l.watson{at}keele.ac.uk ER -