The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) database: the Uniform Data Set.
The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) is responsible for developing and maintaining a database of participant information collected from the 29 Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The NIA appointed the ADC Clinical Task Force to determine and define an expanded, standardized clinical data set, called the Uniform Data Set (UDS). The goal of the UDS is to provide ADC researchers a standard set of assessment procedures, collected longitudinally, to better characterize ADC participants with mild Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment in comparison with nondemented controls. NACC implemented the UDS (September 2005) by developing data collection forms for initial and follow-up visits based on Clinical Task Force definitions, a relational database, and a data submission system accessible by all ADCs. The NIA requires ADCs to submit UDS data to NACC for all their Clinical Core participants. Thus, the NACC web site (https://www.alz.washington.edu) was enhanced to provide efficient and secure access data submission and retrieval systems.
Beekly
Duane L
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Department of Epidemiology, National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. beekly@u.washington.edu
Ramos
Erin M
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Lee
William W
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Deitrich
Woodrow D
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Jacka
Mary E
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Wu
Joylee
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Hubbard
Janene L
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Koepsell
Thomas D
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Morris
John C
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Kukull
Walter A
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