The Rochester Epidemiology Project: exploiting the capabilities for population-based research in rheumatic diseases.
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.
Kremers
Hilal Maradit
HM
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Myasoedova
Elena
E
Crowson
Cynthia S
CS
Savova
Guergana
G
Gabriel
Sherine E
SE
Matteson
Eric L
EL
D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D008910:Minnesota; D012107:Research Design; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*