Patient Engagement Resource Center

Published by EATRIS

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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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Short guide on patient partnerships in rare disease research projects

Published by EJPRD

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This guide has been developed with the help of a working group comprising of patient representatives and research funders. Its main goal is to encourage fruitful, sustainable and enduring partnerships between scientists and patient organisa tions, co-leading the way for systematic patient-centered research. It also aims to foster a partnership culture and contribute to an improved understanding of the added value of patient engagement and involvement in basic, pre-clinical, translational and social research for the Rare Disease Community in Europe and beyond.

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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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Rare Diseases Registry Program (RaDaR)

Published by NCATS

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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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Procedural document: data collection and registration of clinical trials

Published by Orphanet

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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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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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