Open AccessClinical disease registries in acute myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Reza Ashrafi,
Hussain Hussain,
Robert Brisk,
Leanne Boardman,
Clive Weston
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of cardiology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8462
DOI - 10.4330/wjc.v6.i6.415
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , epidemiology , clinical trial , disease , intensive care medicine , medline , population , environmental health , political science , law
Disease registries, containing systematic records of cases, have for nearly 100 years been valuable in exploring and understanding various aspects of cardiology. This is particularly true for myocardial infarction, where such registries have provided both epidemiological and clinical information that was not readily available from randomised controlled trials in highly-selected populations. Registries, whether mandated or voluntary, prospective or retrospective in their analysis, have at their core a common study population and common data definitions. In this review we highlight how registries have diversified to offer information on epidemiology, risk modelling, quality assurance/improvement and original research-through data mining, transnational comparisons and the facilitation of enrolment in, and follow-up during registry-based randomised clinical trials.