The EULAR´S repository of research databases

an initiative of the Standing Committee of Epidemiology and Health Services Research (SCHER)

What’s in this repository?

The EULAR’s repository of research databases will hold information on minimum quality study databases. The quality will be warranted from including only:

  • Studies with published data
  • Databases of studies presented for evaluation to research grants and approved.

The type of databases that the ERRD will be home to:

  • Prospective longitudinal observational studies:
    • Registries
    • Cohorts
    • Clinical databases
  • Of importance for the rheumatologist. Any condition or health problem considered rheumatic by the WHO will be under the scope.
  • Large databases, with a minimum size of 100 subjects.
  • Regarding the time, previous or published and/or on-going studies.
  • Those that will provide enough information to allow others to understand the objective and basic structure.
  • The ERRD will not host clinical databases without objectives (i.e. not for epidemiological, drug monitoring, practice, etc..), retrospective databases, or datasets from cross-sectional or case-control studies.

The information will be grouped into sections:

  • Administrative data,
  • Study methodology
  • Funding
  • List of publications and presentations
  • Keywords