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:
DiFlorio I, Duncan P, Martin B, Middlemiss MA. Curriculum evaluation is an essential phase of curriculum development. Through evaluation a faculty discovers whether a curriculum is fulfilling its purpose and whether students are actually learning. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the implementation of a formative evaluation used by faculty members of a baccalaureate nursing program.