Acute gout. This stage occurs when the urate crystals that have been deposited suddenly cause acute inflammation and intense pain. This sudden attack is referred to as a flare and will normally subside within 3-10 days. Flares can sometimes be triggered by stressful events, alcohol and drugs, as well as cold weather.
Evaluation is inherently a theoretically informed approach (whether explicitly or not), and consequently any particular definition of evaluation would have be tailored to its context â the theory, needs, purpose, and methodology of the evaluation process itself. 1  Having said this, evaluation has been defined as:
Program evaluation is defined as efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of a department, program or agency. The purpose is to determine whether the program is efficient in terms of using resources wisely to perform the needed.