From U Manchester: Clinical registries: governance, management, analysis and applications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23371972

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2013 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Clinical registries: governance, management, analysis and applications.

Hickey GL, Grant SW, Cosgriff R, Dimarakis I, Pagano D, Kappetein AP, Bridgewater B.

Source

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Abstract

Clinical registries will have an increasingly important role to play in health-care, with a number already established in cardiac surgery. This review covers the fundamentals of establishing and managing clinical registries, including legal and ethical frameworks along with intellectual property attribution. Also discussed are important issues relating to the processing of data, data extraction and conducting analyses using registry data.