BACKGROUND Patient registries have great potential for providing data that describe disease burden, treatments, and outcomes; which can be used to improve patient care. Many renal registries exist, but a central repository of their scope, quality, and accessibility is lacking. The objective of this study was to identify and assess worldwide renal registries reporting on renal replacement therap...

BACKGROUND Precision medicine in cerebrovascular disorders may be greatly advanced by the use of innovative interventional and imaging-intensive registries. Registries have remained subsidiary to randomized controlled trials, yet vast opportunities exist to leverage big data in stroke. SUMMARY This overview builds upon the rationale for innovative, imaging-intensive interventional registries ...

The 2004 Ministerial Summit on Health Research called on the World Health Organization to to establish a registry network with the intention of providing a single access point to identify trials. In 2007 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors amended their support of this initiative stating that only trials registered prospectively on a member registry of the WHO's Network of Pr...

A recently identified condition known as COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID complications. More data are awaited, a consensus criterion was published in an effort spur more research registries assist clinical decision-making. However, it evident that CAPA imposes illness course worsens with increased morbidity mortality. Here ...

PURPOSE Knowledge of the benefits and risks of new drugs is incomplete at the time of marketing approval. Registries offer the possibility for additional, post-approval, data collection. For all new drugs, which were approved in the European Union between 2007 and 2010, we reviewed the frequency, the type, and the reason for requiring a registry. METHODS The European Public Assessment Reports...

Editor’s note—Several pregnancy registries presently are collecting data on pregnancy outcomes in women with epilepsy. Such registries have inherent limitations of selection bias and incomplete information. Data from the registries cannot easily be combined to achieve greater statistical power, since each registry differs from the other in methodology. Nevertheless, in the likely continued abse...

INTRODUCTION Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been demonstrated to be an alternative treatment for severe aortic stenosis in patients considered as high surgical risk. Since its first human implantation by Cribier et al., TAVI has been shown to increase survival rate and quality of life for high surgical risks patients. The objective of this study is to provide an overview of ...