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Disease or patient registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific diagnosis, condition, or procedure, and they play an important role in post marketing surveillance of pharmaceuticals. Registries are different from indexes in that they contain more extensive data. In its simplest form, a disease registry could consist of a collection of paper cards kept inside "a shoe box" by an individual physician. Most frequently registries vary in sophistication from simple spreadsheets that only can be accessed by a small group of physicians to very complex databases that are accessed online across multiple institutions.〔(ACP Observer, September 2005 - Patient registries: a key step to quality improvement )〕 They can provide health providers (or even patients) with reminders to check certain tests in order to reach certain quality goals. ==Disease Registries versus Electronic Medical Records== Registries are less complex and simpler to set up than Electronic Medical Records that according to a recent survey are only used by 9% of small offices where almost half of the US doctors work.〔(NEJM - Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care - A National Survey of Physicians )〕 An electronic medical record keeps track of all the patients a doctor follows but a registry only keeps track of a small sub population of patients with a specific condition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disease registry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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