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Open Access
01-07-2012 | Oral presentation
The childhood arthritis & rheumatology research alliance network registry: demographics and characteristics of the initial 6-month cohort
Authors:
Marc D Natter, Jane R Winsor, Kathleen A Fox, Norman T Ilowite, Kenneth D Mandl, Kelly L Mieszkalski, Christy I Sandborg, John S Sundy, Carol A Wallace, Laura E Schanberg, CARRAnet Investigators Group
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
In 2009, the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) established a longitudinal multi-center, multiple disease U.S. national registry (CARRAnet) for pediatric rheumatology with the intent of providing 60 participating clinical sites a new framework to drive observational clinical research and evidence-based care. CARRAnet seeks to enroll up to 20,000 subjects with childhood-onset rheumatic disease and twice yearly follow-up. We report baseline characteristics of the initial 6-month enrollment cohort; disease-specific results are reported separately. …