Evaluation of health care costs and utilization for patients with gout: a population-based matched cohort study.

CONCLUSION: Gout patients had higher medical utilization and costs than gout-free patients. In gout patients, all-cause and gout-related utilization were mostly outpatient visits whereas most of the all-cause and gout-related costs were due to hospitalization. The study findings could be useful for future economic evaluations and healthcare resource allocation. PMID: 29243513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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