SynthesisPloS one2017
Impact of clinical registries on quality of patient care and clinical outcomes: A systematic review.
Synthesis in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
136 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- International Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Patients With Hereditary Angioedema.Allergy · 2026Guideline
- Using natural language processing to extract information from clinical text in electronic medical records for populating clinical registries: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026Pooled it
- Weighing the impact of evidence in orthopaedic trauma registries: a systematic review of national and international registry data.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Maximising the Quality of Stroke Care: Reporting of Data Collection Methods and Resourcing in National Stroke Registries: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical systems · 2024Pooled it
- Comprehensive review of Korean Medicine registries 2015-2023.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluations of statistical methods for outlier detection when benchmarking in clinical registries: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Which strategies support the effective use of clinical practice guidelines and clinical quality registry data to inform health service delivery? A systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Cerebral palsy information system with an approach to information architecture: a systematic review.BMJ health & care informatics · 2019Pooled it
- Health outcomes measurement and organizational readiness support quality improvement: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2018Pooled it
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- Public Reporting Systems in Health Care and the Underconceptualized Technical Substrate, a Core Information Systems Dimension: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Multilingual Evidence-Based Question-Answering for Stroke Discharge Summaries: Study of Cross-Lingual Heterogeneity in Clinical Reports.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
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- Advancing learning health care systems with best practice meetings: a mixed-methods study with insights from the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026Article
- Development of a National Clinical Registry for CABG Surgery in Saudi Arabia-The SCAR Project.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Program-Related Factors Associated With Morbidity Among Patients in Low-Resource Settings: Analysis From the International Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2026Observational
- Differential Compliance of Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Multicenter Hand and Wrist Surgery Registry in Switzerland.Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2026Article
- Characteristics, clinical management and outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction enrolled or not enrolled in a quality registry.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2026Article
76 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
backgroundClinical quality registries (CQRs) are playing an increasingly important role in improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. CQRs are established with the purpose of monitoring quality of care, providing feedback, benchmarking performance, describing pattern of treatment, reducing variation and as a tool for conducting research.
objectivesTo synthesise the impact of clinical quality registries (CQRs) as an 'intervention' on (I) mortality/survival; (II) measures of outcome that reflect a process or outcome of health care; (III) health care utilisation; and (IV) healthcare-related costs.
methodsThe following electronic databases were searched: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL and Google Scholar. In addition, a review of the grey literature and a reference check of citations and reference lists within articles was undertaken to identify relevant studies in English covering the period January 1980 to December 2016. The PRISMA-P methodology, checklist and standard search strategy using pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria and structured data extraction tools were used. Data on study design and methods, participant characteristics attributes of included registries and impact of the registry on outcome measures and/or processes of care were extracted.
resultsWe identified 30102 abstracts from which 75 full text articles were assessed and finally 17 articles were selected for synthesis. Out of 17 studies, six focused on diabetes care, two on cardiac diseases, two on lung diseases and others on organ transplantations, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcer healing, surgical complications and kidney disease. The majority of studies were "before after" design (#11) followed by cohort design (#2), randomised controlled trial (#2), experimental non randomised study and one cross sectional comparison. The measures of impact of registries were multifarious and included change in processes of care, quality of care, treatment outcomes, adherence to guidelines and survival. Sixteen of 17 studies demonstrated positive findings in their outcomes after implementation of the registry.
conclusionsDespite the large number of published articles using data derived from CQRs, few have rigorously evaluated the impact of the registry as an intervention on improving health outcomes. Those that have evaluated this impact have mostly found a positive impact on healthcare processes and outcomes.
trial registrationPROSPERO CRD42015017319.
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