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ICRS announces launch of international patient registry on articular cartilage damage
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The International Cartilage Repair Society announced it has launched the first global, web-based patient registry to offer an international data pool for articular cartilage injury, history and treatment.
According to a press release, the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) registry will expand the body of evidence available to clinicians, companies and health funders and will provide data to better understand treatment of acute cartilage damage and early osteoarthritis.
“This is a fast-moving field with many new techniques,” Kenneth R. Zaslav, MD, president of the ICRS, said in the release. “The registry will allow us to coordinate care and research between our members, and it will help companies see relevant problems sooner, and thereby get a feeling for usage of their technologies. In addition, our hope is that the registry will serve as a pooled data source for comparing treatments, thereby facilitating more rapid enrollment in prospective, randomized studies — in turn shortening the overall time for improvements in patient care.”
The registry will be available in English, and six other languages will be added in the spring of 2017. Currently, data are restricted to the knee. Information for the ankle, hip and shoulder will be added in the future.
Reference:
http://cartilage.org/society/icrs-patient-registry/