The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) is proud to announce the launch of RheumaFacts, an revolutionary and distinctive useful resource of information and figures associated to rheumatic and musculoskeletal ailments (RMDs) throughout Europe. Strategically developed to assist EULAR’s mission of decreasing the affect of RMDs on people and society, RheumaFacts will function a strong device to offer healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and sufferers with data-driven insights on the standing of rheumatologic care throughout EULAR’s member international locations.
By periodical surveys amongst EULAR’s member organizations, country-specific details about nationwide rheumatologic care, assets and expenditures will probably be retrieved. Complemented by international, socio-economic statistics from worldwide organizations, RheumaFacts will present, in a single single platform, a singular useful resource in regards to the actuality of the affect of RMDs throughout Europe. “By becoming a member of forces with all of EULAR’s member international locations, we are going to create a database of up-to-date RMD-related data. No different knowledge repository of this type is on the market throughout Europe, and it is going to be the go-to useful resource to know the actual burden of illness and establish unmet wants within the completely different healthcare techniques throughout Europe”, stated Dr Anna Molto, chair of the EULAR Analysis sub-committee of epidemiology and public well being and lead of the venture.
RheumaFacts is one in every of a number of new initiatives beneath the umbrella of the EULAR Analysis Centre that goals to facilitate collaborative primary, medical, and epidemiological analysis by offering assets, infrastructure, companies, and coaching for RMD researchers throughout Europe. The Centre’s just lately launched, patient-filled Affect of RMDs Survey will probably be one other essential useful resource informing RheumaFacts with a singular sufferers’ perspective on rheumatologic care.
RheumaFacts will reveal not solely traits and numbers, however way more importantly, healthcare gaps and inequalities amongst our member societies that we are going to intention to scale back. With RheumaFacts, we are going to allow affected person organizations and policymakers to be higher knowledgeable and to advocate extra successfully for respectable care of RMD sufferers throughout the EULAR international locations.”
Professor Annamaria Iagnocco, EULAR President
The information introduced in RheumaFacts will probably be accessible to researchers and different teams comparable to funding companies, decision-makers, and policymakers who can advance public well being at a European stage. EULAR encourages all its member organizations to take part within the knowledge assortment by sharing related data and insights about their nationwide RMD care.
