TY - JOUR
T1 - The National Data Bank for rheumatic diseases
T2 - A multi-registry rheumatic disease data bank
AU - Wolfe, Frederick
AU - Michaud, Kaleb
N1 - Funding Information:
Disclosure statement: F.W. is an employee of the NDB. The NDB has received research grants from Bristol Myers Squibb, UCB and Pfizer. The other author has declared no conflicts of interest.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - The National Data Bank (NDB) for rheumatic diseases is a patient-based multi-disease, multi-purpose rheumatic disease registry that has been used primarily to study patients with RA, SLE, FM and OA. It enrols patients from the community, follows up with questionnaires and validates key patient data using medical records. Rheumatologist-written programs make NDB data immediately available to analysts. The NDB has been used to develop and validate diagnostic criteria, develop new questionnaires, describe illness and comorbid disease, assesses disease outcomes and the effect of therapeutic interventions, and measure costs and cost-effectiveness.
AB - The National Data Bank (NDB) for rheumatic diseases is a patient-based multi-disease, multi-purpose rheumatic disease registry that has been used primarily to study patients with RA, SLE, FM and OA. It enrols patients from the community, follows up with questionnaires and validates key patient data using medical records. Rheumatologist-written programs make NDB data immediately available to analysts. The NDB has been used to develop and validate diagnostic criteria, develop new questionnaires, describe illness and comorbid disease, assesses disease outcomes and the effect of therapeutic interventions, and measure costs and cost-effectiveness.
KW - Data Bank
KW - NDB
KW - National Data Bank for rheumatic diseases
KW - Registry
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U2 - 10.1093/rheumatology/keq155
DO - 10.1093/rheumatology/keq155
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20566735
AN - SCOPUS:79951718504
VL - 50
SP - 16
EP - 24
JO - Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
JF - Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
SN - 1462-0324
IS - 1
ER -