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[ESTABLISHING A REGISTRY FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS IN MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES - JOINT PROJECT
Revital Kariv1,2,3, Dan Turner4, Joseph Rosenblum5
1Health Division, Maccabi Healthcare Services.
Introduction:
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are becoming a significant cause for chronic long term complex morbidity, particularly among adolescents and young adults. IBD patients require multidisciplinary management and considerable health resources. Recent advances and developments in the diagnostics and therapeutic options require identification and tight monitoring of these patients at both hospital and community level for better management and care.
Aims:
To establish at Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS) a dedicated registry for inflammatory bowel disease patients for long term monitoring in order to optimize care, better use of health resources and to promote high quality research.
Methods:
A national project, initiated and headed by a team from Shaare Zedek Medical Center aimed to resolve the complexity in identifying IBD patients at the community setting. The project included data from all Israeli HMOs and major hospitals, that was incorporated into various algorithms to determine prevalence and incidence and to distinguish between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis diagnoses. Eventually, an algorithm that includes the number of diagnoses, number of purchases and duration of IBD-related medications showed the best results for separating those that suffer from IBD and those that do not. This algorithm was further validated by chart review.
Results:
According to the established registry criteria there were 14488 IBD patients in MHS, 13000 active. Additionally we have established an ongoing platform for ongoing monitoring of clinical, therapeutic, laboratory and imaging information.
Discussion:
Establishing an IBD registry in MHS was enabled by a national project that combined deep professional knowledge of the disease by leading academic centers together with advanced informatics and community large data. We now move on to operate the registry in real life, together with live monitoring of various parameters in order to promote excellent care, communication with patients, management and control and to enable prospective high quality research.
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