'There's a pressing need for National Clinical Registry of COVID-19,' says ICMR

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and All India Institue of Medical Science (AIIMS) have made a recommendation to form a National Clinical Registry of COVID-19. In order to take this forward, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited tenders of letter of intent from COVID care centres and hospitals to be a part of this National Clinical Registry of COVID-19 (NCRC). 

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National Clinical Registry of COVID-19

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NCRC is aimed at collecting real-time clinical data which will help official in conducting research and put toger protocols and guidelines based on evidence. This will also aid policymaking process and ensure that we have better patient manment strategies, predicting disease severity as well as patient outcomes. 

"re is a pressing need for collection of systematic data on clinical signs & symptoms, laboratory investigations, manment protocols, clinical course of COVID-19 disease, disease spectrum and outcomes of patients. Such data will serve as an invaluable tool for formulating appropriate patient manment strategies, predicting disease severity, patient outcomes etc," ICMR said.

"A systematically collected, comprehensive database covering different regions of country will enable both researchers and policymakers to generate pertinent hyposes, to inform crucial understanding of COVID 19, to detect trends in progression of pandemic and to accordingly calibrate response to pandemic," said an official.

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re is a lot about COVID-19 that still remains unkwns as researchers' race against time to discover. This move will also help authorities collect evidence-based data on signs, symptoms, and health conditions related to coronavirus.

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NCRC will collect data from 100 hospitals across country for next one year to understand this highly contagious virus. This data will n be analysed by a team of scientists at ICMR and will be used to generate hyposes for various parameters of COVID-19 disease. This National Clinical Registery of COVID-19 is need of hour and will be useful for future studies as well. 

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This NCRC project will be funded by Indian Council of Medical Research. dedicated COVID-19 hospitals and COVID care centres enrolled with NCRC will be trained, mentored, and supervised by 15 reputed medical institutes across India. This list of hospitals has been listed in tender tice published by ICMR.

Indian Council of Medical Research aims to ensure that National Clinical Registery of COVID-19 has adequate representation from all zones, states, union territories and has diversity.

(With inputs from PTI)