1. Clinical Research Methodology Course
“Databases and Registries in Rheumatology:
Complementing Randomized Clinical Trials”
Friday, December 15, 2006
NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Loeb Auditorium
301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003

2. Why? RCT Databases and registries What is it good for?
What are its shortcomings?
Databases and registries
What kind of information
Which patients?
How to collect the information
How to use the information

3. Why? What kind of tools do we have?
How can the tools we have help us make treatment decisions?
How can all this be applied to everyday, routine care of arthritis patients?

4. Enduring materials
Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases – special issue
Podcast
Please hold questions until the end of the talk
Centocor & Genentech

5. “We become confident in our educated guesswork to the point where it is easy to confuse personal opinion with evidence, or personal ignorance with scientific uncertainty”
David Naylor