The Rochester Epidemiology Project: exploiting the capabilities for population-based research in rheumatic diseases.

Kremers, Hilal Maradit; Myasoedova, Elena; Crowson, Cynthia S; Savova, Guergana; Gabriel, Sherine E; Matteson, Eric L · Rheumatology (Oxford) · 2011

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Abstract

The Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) is a patient record-based database based upon a medical records-linkage system for all residents of the Olmsted County, MN, USA. This comprehensive system includes all health-care providers of patients resident in this geographically defined region. It uniquely enables long-term population-based studies of all medical conditions occurring in this population; their incidence and prevalence; permits examination of disease risk and protective factors, health resource utilization and cost as well as translational studies in rheumatic diseases.

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