Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America
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Rheum. Dis. Clin. North Am. · Nov 2004
ReviewData collection, maintenance, and analysis for rheumatic disease research.
With the increasing availability of inexpensive, powerful computers and software, clinicians and academics are constructing or thinking about constructing rheumatic disease outcomes databases. This article describes concepts, methods, and problems in database construction and analysis based on the experience of the US National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases.