RITA Ireland Vasculitis registry (formerly known as RKD registry and biobank)

22/09/2025
22/09/2025
Data source
Human
Biobank
Disease registry
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Access and validation

Governance details

Documents or webpages that describe the overall governance of the data source and processes and procedures for data capture and management, data quality check and validation results (governing data access or utilisation for research purposes).

RKD registry and biobank Protocol.pdf

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RIV registry and biobank

Biospecimen access

Are biospecimens available in the data source (e.g., tissue samples)?

Yes

Biospecimen access conditions

MTA and data sharing agreement required
Cost recovery charge levied - amount variable depending on nature of engagement, and whether industry or academic

Access to subject details

Can individual patients/practitioners/practices included in the data source be contacted?

Yes

Description of data collection

Manual data entry at the time of clinical encounter, with data manager QC
Event triggering registration

Event triggering registration of a person in the data source

Disease diagnosis

Event triggering de-registration of a person in the data source

Death
Loss to follow up

Event triggering creation of a record in the data source

Hospital encounters
Data source linkage

Linkage

Is the data source described created by the linkage of other data sources (prelinked data source) and/or can the data source be linked to other data source on an ad-hoc basis?

No
Data management specifications that apply for the data source

Data source refresh

Yearly

Informed consent for use of data for research

Not Required

Possibility of data validation

Can validity of the data in the data source be verified (e.g., access to original medical charts)?

Yes

Data source preservation

Are records preserved in the data source indefinitely?

Yes

Approval for publication

Is an approval needed for publishing the results of a study using the data source?

Yes

Data source last refresh

Common Data Model (CDM) mapping

CDM mapping

Has the data source been converted (ETL-ed) to a common data model?

Yes

CDM Mappings

CDM name (other)

https://fairvasc-fdp.adaptcentre.ie/

Data source ETL specifications (link)

CDM name (other)

FAIRVASC ontology

Data source ETL frequency

6,00 months

Data source ETL specifications (link)