24th October 2022 by Dr Louise Hudman
This is a new guideline from NICE on the diagnosis and management of gout. It was published in June 2022.
This guideline keeps most of the basic management of gout the same.
There are a few things that come out of this guideline that are different to what we currently do. I shall list these below with a bit of an explanation as to why they are giving this advice. I am not doing a full summary of the guideline as most of it is no different to what we normally do.
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