Catherine Hill, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, catherine.hill@sa.gov.au
The South Australian Giant Cell Arteritis Registry aims to collect clinical and epidemiological information of all patients in SA who have been diagnosed with Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA). Data is collected via patient survey as well as clinical case note review with follow-up until 5 years post diagnosis. The Registry is a multicentre, state-wide, longitudinal observational study established to characterise disease presentation and monitor its progression and associated patient outcomes.
Aims:
- To determine clinical, epidemiological, genetic, histological and imaging features of the patients’ GCA
- To follow participants longitudinally for 5 years with questionnaires relating to disease activity, medication reviews and long term sequelae
- To determine which features of the temporal artery biopsy are related to positivity
- To perform data linkage with Pharmaceutical Benefits (PBS), Medicare (MBS), SA Hospitalisation data and Death Registry.
This database will serve as a useful tool to:
- Enable a determination of the incidence and prevalence of GCA in South Australia
- Enable an enquiry into epidemiological clues to disease causation
- Undertake a comparison of disease progression/outcomes achieved with different treatment regimes
- Collect data linkage with Pharmaceutical Benefits (PBS), Medicare (MBS), and Death Registry
- The ability for other research teams to apply for use of the data collected in the registry
- Allow measurement of quality indicators for GCA care.
- Feedback to contributing clinicians
- Shared with other clinicians
- Reported in other reports
- Giant Cell Arteritis Patient Reported Outcome Measure (GCA-PRO)
- Steroid Patient Reported Outcome Measure (Steroid PRO)
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- Flinders Medical Centre
- Lyall McEwin Hospital
- Modbury Hospital
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- The Royal Adelaide Hospital
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