The National Data Bank for rheumatic diseases: a multi-registry rheumatic disease data bank
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The National Data Bank for rheumatic diseases: a multi-registry rheumatic disease data bank.
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 ana...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq155