The HemoRec Database as an Example of a Rare Diseases Registry
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | European Oncology & Haematology |
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| Field | Oncology and hematology |
| Keywords | HemoRec haemophilia registry rare diseases orphan diseases bleeding disorders rare bleeding disorders von Willebrand disease |
| Description | Rare diseases constitute a major burden on public health, mainly due to the high cost of therapy and logistical difficulties (for example, the need to organise a network of designated treatment centres). National and international registries of rare diseases facilitate data collection and analysis for demographic, economic and research purposes. They are also useful for treatment centres and other healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies developing orphan drugs. We present the HemoRec database, implemented in 2006 in six European countries, as an example of an international registry of inherited bleeding disorders. HemoRec is used in 15 Polish treatment centres and stores data on 1,100 patients with inherited bleeding disorders (amounting to 24.9% of all patients registered in the Polish central registry held at the Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion in Warsaw). It can be developed in the future into a national platform of data collection and exchange in the network of Polish, and hopefully also European, haemophilia treatment centres. |