A standardized clinical database for research in Chagas disease: The NHEPACHA network.

ABSTRACT: The NHEPACHA Iberoamerican Network, founded on the initiative of a group of researchers from Latin American countries and Spain, aims to establish a research framework for Chagas disease that encompasses diagnosis and treatment. For this purpose, the network has created a questionnaire to gather relevant data on epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of the disease. This questionnaire was developed based on a consensus of expert members of the network, with the intention of collecting high-quality standardized data, which can be used interchangeably by the different research centers that make up the NHEPACHA network. Furthermore, the network intends to offer a clinical protocol that can be embraced by other researchers, facilitating comparability among published stu

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez Martinez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11326575 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature