Abdus Salam Khan, Sanniya Khan Ghauri.
Collaboration is the Key in Creating National Registries through Emergency Departments.
South Asian J Emerg Med Jan ;3(2):01-2.

A registry is an ongoing collection of uniform data for a specific disease with predetermined inclusion and exclu-sion criteria to improve the morbidity and mortality and focus on prevention strategies for that disease.(1) It is part of a quality improvement initiative to address a specific problem. South East Asian countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have an accumulative population of almost half the world yet the research coming from this part is negligible with the least number of registries documented.(2,3) The basic building block for the research is clean and unified data either from a single or multiple sources. Most of the data is lost within the chasm between public and private health care facilities.

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