TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of a framework for the deployment of collaborative independent rare disease-centric registries
T2 - Gaucher disease registry model
AU - Bellgard, Matthew I.
AU - Napier, Kathryn R
AU - Bittles, Alan H.
AU - Szer, Jeffrey
AU - Fletcher, Sue
AU - Zeps, Nikolajs
AU - Hunter, Adam A
AU - Goldblatt, Jack
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Orphan drug clinical trials often are adversely affected by a lack of high quality treatment efficacy data that can be reliably compared across large patient cohorts derived from multiple governmental and country jurisdictions. It is critical that these patient data be captured with limited corporate involvement. For some time, there have been calls to develop collaborative, non-proprietary, patient-centric registries for post-market surveillance of aspects related to orphan drug efficacy. There is an urgent need for the development and sustainable deployment of these 'independent' registries that can capture comprehensive clinical, genetic and therapeutic information on patients with rare diseases. We therefore extended an open-source registry platform, the Rare Disease Registry Framework (RDRF) to establish an Independent Rare Disease Registry (IRDR). We engaged with an established rare disease community for Gaucher disease to determine system requirements, methods of data capture, consent, and reporting. A non-proprietary IRDR model is presented that can serve as autonomous data repository, but more importantly ensures that the relevant data can be made available to appropriate stakeholders in a secure, timely and efficient manner to improve clinical decision-making and the lives of those with a rare disease.
AB - Orphan drug clinical trials often are adversely affected by a lack of high quality treatment efficacy data that can be reliably compared across large patient cohorts derived from multiple governmental and country jurisdictions. It is critical that these patient data be captured with limited corporate involvement. For some time, there have been calls to develop collaborative, non-proprietary, patient-centric registries for post-market surveillance of aspects related to orphan drug efficacy. There is an urgent need for the development and sustainable deployment of these 'independent' registries that can capture comprehensive clinical, genetic and therapeutic information on patients with rare diseases. We therefore extended an open-source registry platform, the Rare Disease Registry Framework (RDRF) to establish an Independent Rare Disease Registry (IRDR). We engaged with an established rare disease community for Gaucher disease to determine system requirements, methods of data capture, consent, and reporting. A non-proprietary IRDR model is presented that can serve as autonomous data repository, but more importantly ensures that the relevant data can be made available to appropriate stakeholders in a secure, timely and efficient manner to improve clinical decision-making and the lives of those with a rare disease.
KW - Gaucher disease
KW - Independent Rare Disease Registry
KW - Open source
KW - Post-market surveillance
KW - Rare Disease Registry Framework
KW - Web-based
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011949045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.bcmd.2017.01.013
DO - 10.1016/j.bcmd.2017.01.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 28190666
AN - SCOPUS:85011949045
SN - 1079-9796
VL - 68
SP - 232
EP - 238
JO - Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases
JF - Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases
ER -