Patient Engagement Resource Center

Published by EATRIS

Patient EngagementPatient InformationResearch and Drug Development

The Patient Engagement Resource center is an easy to navigate platform to help researchers get started with patient engagement in research. This toolbox provides helpful resources to help researchers understand the basics of patient engagement, and guide them through the different phases of patient engagement, from planning to conducting and evaluating.

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EURORDIS Community Advisory Board (CAB) Programme

Published by ECRINEURORDIS

Clinical Trials Toolkit

Patient Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are groups established and operated by patient advocates. They offer their expertise to sponsors of clinical research. For example, by being involved before a clinical study starts, patients help ensure that clinical studies are designed to take into account their real needs, resulting in higher quality research.

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PARADIGM patient engagement toolbox

Published by ECRINPARADIGM

Clinical Trials Toolkit

This project deliverable centralises all PARADIGM’s co-created recommendations, tools and relevant background information to make patient engagement in medicines development easier for all. The toolbox could help develop clinical trials with a further enhanced patient-focus and improve the experience of patients participating in the trials. Developed by PARADIGM project.

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Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN)

Published by NCATS

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The RDCRN program is designed to advance medical research on rare diseases by providing support for clinical studies and facilitating collaboration, study enrollment and data sharing. Through the RDCRN consortia, physician scientists and their multidisciplinary teams work together with patient advocacy groups to study more than 200 rare diseases at sites across the nation.

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Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) leads the Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (IRUD) program. The program provides patients across Japan suffering from undiagnosed diseases with a diagnostic strategy that involves genetic analysis

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Procedural document: data collection and registration of clinical trials

Published by Orphanet

Patient EngagementClinical TrialOrphanet

Orphanet offers, amongst a range of expert resources on rare diseases, a directory of national and multinational clinical trials aiming to help: – clinical investigators working in the field of rare diseases find each other, establish collaborations, recruit patients; – patients and general public retrieve information on ongoing clinical trials for a particular disease, and stay informed on clinical trials that are recruiting; – experts, funding agencies and pharmaceutical industry obtain visibility on therapeutic development in the field of rare disease.

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Rare Diseases Registry Program (RaDaR)

Published by NCATS

Patient Registry

RaDaR, formerly known as the Global Rare Diseases Registry Data Repository program, aims to define best practices for patient registries. RaDaR also strives to identify and adopt standards to support high-quality registries for rare diseases therapeutics development.

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