National Clinical Registry on Covid
Context :
Centre launches
National Clinical Registry of Covid-19 and vaccine portal / 29 Sep 2020
Extract :
Union health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched the National Clinical Registry and a
vaccine portal aimed at,
Ø Collecting quality real-time clinical data
on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients from hospitals and laboratories
Ø
It will also document India’s efforts towards developing vaccines
against the viral disease
Ø The need
for maintaining a registry was felt as documentation and description of people infected by
Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and their course of illness is imperative for
obtaining useful information about the disease and its behavior in various groups of patients.
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To develop National Clinical COVID-19 registry to collect data
regarding clinical and laboratory features, treatments, and outcomes of
hospitalized COVID-19 patients in India. |
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2. |
To study the frequency, clinical and laboratory features,
treatments, and outcomes of COVID-19 related multisystem inflammatory
disorder in children and adolescents by analyzing the national COVID-19
registry. |
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1. |
To utilize data to answer
research questions on COVID -19 including natural
course of disease, spectrum of disease, prognostic factors, outcomes data,
medications, health systems and context specific questions such as COVID-19
in Tuberculosis, Malnutrition etc. |
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2. |
To serve as a platform for additional clinical research studies
in selected sites. |
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To collect follow-up data of
discharged COVID 19 patients, if possible. |
The registry follows a hub and spoke model
with primary data being
collected in the electronic data capture form by satellite centers
(dedicated
COVID-19 hospitals) which are being trained,
mentored and supervised by
medical institutes of national repute chosen
region-wise.
Data management
including the development of the electronic data capture
form is being done by
ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS).
The Registry is being rolled out in phases. The first phase includes 50 satellite sites mentored by 14 Regional Registry Sites
Ø Expression
of Interest is being invited from Dedicated Covid Hospitals ( DCH ), and
Dedicated Covid Health Centres ( DCHC ), both public and private
Ø No
cost is incurred to collaborate as Registry Site
Ø All
COVID-19 confirmed patients admitted in
the participating sites
Ø Data
re:
#
clinical
features ,
#
laboratory
investigations,
#
treatment , and
# outcome
,
are being collected
Ø Trends in presentation and management of disease can
be analyzed from the collected data. This analysis may help both clinicians and
policymakers to take better informed decisions
Ø Only data from hospital records are being collected ;
there is no interference with the standard practice of clinical care as
followed in individual hospitals
Ø Patient identifiers are not being collected
Ø A data management team under the overarching supervision of the Steering Committee , which is constituted of experts, will analyze the data
Periodic reports generated from the Registry data will be available on ICMR website
Ø The
inclusion of retrospective data has been planned
in the next phase
Ø Provisions
will be made such that the current registry can be compatibly
linked with other data sources for more comprehensive understanding of the
disease
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Dear Dr HarshVardhanji,
Many thanks for considering my suggestion in the
following e-mail :
Rationing
of Covid Vaccine ?
……………………………………………[ 06 July 2020 ]
Where I suggested collection of data as follows :
# Data
about “ Persons already infected ( cured / died / under
treatment ) “
# Data
about “ Persons not infected so far “ – and needing
vaccination
If meticulously
compiled and centrally processed ( with help of Artificial Intelligence ), following
data, compiled uniformly
at source, could determine those
“
VACCINATION PRIORITIES “ :
[ A
] PERSONAL DATA
Ø Name / Birthdate ( for Age ) / Gendre / Contact Details / Aadhar
number
[ B
] LOCATION DATA
Ø Permanent Address / Current Address ( State – Jilla – City – locality ) /
Red
[ C
] FAMILY DATA
Ø Details of Parents /
Siblings
[ D
] HEALTH HISTORY
Ø Details of recent illnesses - morbidity / Medicines given ( including for
Covid
Number of Doctor who treated
[ E
] ETHNIC DATA
Ø Race /
Religion / Language ( Mother tongue )
[ F
] EDUCATIONAL DATA
Ø Graduate – Under Graduate
– Illiterate etc
[ G
] EMPLOYMENT DATA
Ø Employed – Unemployed –
Self employed
[ H
] INCOME DATA
Ø Monthly Income ( to determine whether RICH – MIDDLE CLASS –
POOR )
If implemented , my suggestion ( for using AI to process trillions of bytes of data ) , will help not only in establishing
who ( out of our 700 million citizen ) gets first / second / third , chance to
get vaccinated, but it will also prevent black marketing of the vaccine
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 30 Sept 2020