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This article is part of the supplement: 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress .

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Development of a web-based register for the Dutch national study on biologicals in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: http://www.abc-register.nl

FHM Prince1, IS Ferket1, SSM Kamphuis1, W Armbrust2, R Ten Cate3, EPAH Hoppenreijs4, Y Koopman-Keemink5, MAJ van Rossum6, M van Santen-Hoeufft7, M Twilt1 and LWA van Suijlekom-Smit1

Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

UMCG Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands

Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Hagaziekenhuis Juliana Children's Hospital, Den Haag, Netherlands

AMC Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands

corresponding author email

from 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress
London, UK. 14–17 September 2008

Pediatric Rheumatology 2008, 6(Suppl 1):P153doi:10.1186/1546-0096-6-S1-P153

Published: 15 September 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Most clinical studies use paper case record forms (CRFs) to collect data. In the Dutch multicentre observational study on biologicals we encountered several disadvantages of using the paper CRFs. These are delay in data collection, lack of overview in collected data, and difficulties in obtaining up-to-date interim reports. Therefore we wanted to create a more effective method of data collection compared to CRFs on paper in a multicentre study.


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