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Registry-Based Stroke Research

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By definition ‘registry’ is a place where official names and/or items are kept forming an official list or register. Patient registry is an organized system to collect data that uses observational study methods. A patient registry often collects demographic, risk factors, treatments, outcomes and other clinical data to evaluate specified characteristics, management, follow-up, benchmarking or outcomes for a defined population by a particular disease, condition or exposure. Patient registries are usually created by researchers, research institutions, academic clinical institutions or individual research teams. Registries can generate large amounts of data in a short time.

In this chapter we focus on clinical registries and discuss the various types of registry-based studies and their strengths and limitations compared to randomized studies. Finally, we give some examples of national stroke registries and a large international stroke registry and discuss its strengths and limitations along with its achievements.

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Ahmed, N., Prazeres Moreira, T. (2021). Registry-Based Stroke Research. In: Fonseca, A.C., Ferro, J.M. (eds) Precision Medicine in Stroke. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70761-3_11

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