About the Gout Working Group
Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis and is caused by deposition of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in and around joints, which provokes an intense inflammatory response. Gout manifests as episodes of intense joint pain, swelling, and functional disability that may lead to persistent joint symptoms and structural joint damage. At Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) meetings, joint damage imaging has been endorsed as a discretionary domain for outcome measurement in chronic gout studies. However, no specific imaging instruments have been endorsed by OMERACT for use in gout studies. In the last decade there have been major advances in imaging in gout and so it was appropriate that the OMERACT gout working group focused on imaging modalities as outcome measures for use in chronic gout studies.

Nicola Dalbeth
Co-Chair

Jasvinder A. Singh
Co-Chair

Will Taylor
Co-Chair
Working Group Publications
Outcome Measures for Acute and Chronic Gout
Outcome Evaluations in Gout
Outcome Domains for Studies of Acute and Chronic Gout
Progress in Measurement Instruments for Acute and Chronic Gout Studies
Patient-reported Outcomes in Chronic Gout: A Report from OMERACT 10
Tophus Measurement as an Outcome Measure for Clinical Trials of Chronic Gout: Progress and Research Priorities
Serum Urate in Chronic Gout — Will It Be the First Validated Soluble Biomarker in Rheumatology?
Bringing It All Together: A Novel Approach to the Development of Response Criteria for Chronic Gout Clinical Trials
Outcome Measures in Acute Gout: A Systematic Literature Review
OMERACT Endorsement of Measures of Outcome for Studies of Acute Gout
Application of the OMERACT Filter to Measures of Core Outcome Domains in Recent Clinical Studies of Acute Gout
Imaging as an outcome measure in gout studies: report from the OMERACT gout working group
ENDORSED DOMAINS FOR ACUTE GOUT

ENDORSED DOMAINS FOR CHRONIC GOUT

Working Group Members:
Rebecca Grainger
Cesar Diaz-Torne
Nicola Dalbeth
Laura Durcan
N. Lawrence Edwards
Helen Keen
Dinesh Khanna
Fernando Perez-Ruiz
Lee S. Simon
Jasvinder A. Singh
William J. Taylor
Peter Tugwell