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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. Why?. RCT What is it good for?
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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
Why? • RCT • 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
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?
Enduring materials • Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases – special issue • Podcast • Please hold questions until the end of the talk • Centocor & Genentech
“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