Robert A. Yood, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. is currently director of the Division of
Rheumatology at Saint Vincent Hospital, Director of Fallon Clinic’s Division of
Rheumatology, and Medical Director of the Fallon Clinic Research Department. He is also
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr.
Yood’s research activities have focused on the use of administrative databases and health
plan populations to evaluate the incidence and treatment of rheumatic diseases. A
particular interest has been the evaluation of adherence with therapy and the
consequences of poor adherence on outcomes for patients with osteoporosis and gout.

Articles

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Long-term safety of pegloticase in chronic gout refractory to conventional treatment (with Michael A. Becker, Herbert S. B. Baraf, Aileen Dillon, Janitzia Vazquez-Mellado, Faith D. Ottery, Dinesh Khanna, and John S. Sundy), Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2012)
 

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Patients' knowledge and beliefs concerning gout and its treatment: a population based study (with Leslie R. Harrold, Kathleen M. Mazor, Daniel J. Peterson, Nausheen Naz, and Cassandra L. Firneno), BMC musculoskeletal disorders (2012)
 

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Identifying patients with osteoporosis or at risk for osteoporotic fractures (with Yong Chen, Leslie R. Harrold, Terry S. Field, and Becky A. Briesacher), The American journal of managed care (2012)
 

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Efficacy and tolerability of pegloticase for the treatment of chronic gout in patients refractory to conventional treatment: two randomized controlled trials (with John S. Sundy, Herbert S. B. Baraf, N. Lawrence Edwards, Sergio R. Gutierrez-Urena, Edward L. Treadwell, Janitzia Vazquez-Mellado, William B. White, Peter E. Lipsky, Zeb Horowitz, William Huang, Allan N. Maroli, Royce W. Waltrip 2nd, Steven A. Hamburger, and Michael A. Becker), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2011)
 

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Predictors of very low adherence with medications for osteoporosis: towards development of a clinical prediction rule (with Daniel H. Solomon, M. Alan Brookhart, Peter Tsao, Devi Sundaresan, Susan E. Andrade, and Kathleen M. Mazor), Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2011)
 

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Posters and Presentations

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Gout Knowledge, Beliefs and Treatment Practices in a National Sample of US Primary Care Providers (with Leslie R. Harrold, Kathleen M. Mazor, Amarie Negron, Jessica Ogarek, and Cassandra L. Firneno), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)