Assessing Reliability of an Electronic Gout Flare Assessment Protocol
Authors' conclusion
The pilot study shows strong agreement between electronic and telephone gout flare assessments across multiple equivalence tests, supporting electronic surveys as an accurate and efficient alternative to phone assessments.
Study context
- Population
- Convenience sample of patients with gout from the TRUST randomised clinical trial (mean age 60.5 years, SD 13; 93% male)109 flare periods
- Participants
- 28 participants
- Comparison
- Electronic self-reported gout flare assessment vs staff-conducted telephone questionnaire
- Outcome
- Agreement between electronic and phone flare assessments
Methodological detailspilot, convenience sample, nested in the TRUST randomised clinical trial, staff blinded to treatment assignment
- Pilot
- Convenience sample
- Nested in the TRUST randomised clinical trial
- Staff blinded to treatment assignment
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Electronic
23
events
Phone
22
events
- Raw percent agreement
- 96%
- Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)
- 0.880
- Mixed effects ICC
- 0.746
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Original publication
Assessing Reliability of an Electronic Gout Flare Assessment Protocol. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 22 June 2026. doi:10.
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