A Quick Reference Guide to Patient Education Materials on Gout

The following websites offer an abundance of options to help your patients understand their disease and learn to live with it. Several sites offer information in various languages, and for your patients who prefer audio-visual to print, one site has several educational videos.

The ACR—Diseases and Conditions: Gout (Web page or PDF available in English and Spanish.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Gout (Offers information on signs, symptoms, causes, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and living with gout. Web page available in English and Spanish.)
Johns Hopkins—RheumTV (A series of six videos on gout, addressing gout basics, its long-term impact, lifestyle recommendations, treatment, diet, gouty arthritis and pain relief.)
Mayo Clinic—Gout (Offers information on symptoms and causes, diagnosis and treatment. Web page also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.)
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Gout (Offers information on who’s at risk, symptoms, causes, treatment and more. Web page or PDF available in English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese.)

Recently, the Vasculitis Foundation, in collaboration with a group of physicians and vasculitis investigators in the U.S. and Latin America (i.e., Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina), launched an educational series of videos in Spanish called, Aprendiendo de Vasculitis. “The goal of these videos is to provide education to all Spanish-speaking patients,” explains Sebastian E….

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