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:
Evaluation is applied science and should be based on sound methods and theories. It is not. necessary that these theories re documented explicitly in the evaluation report, but theya. should be the basis for the evaluation project.