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Abstract #107532

Kate A. Cronin, MPH¹, Chimnonso Njokanma, BS¹, and Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD². (1) National Centers and Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health Research Coordinating Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Meriter Hospital, 6 West, 202 S. Park Street, Madison, WI 53593, 608-267-5576, kcronin@wisc.edu, (2) Center for Women's Health Research, University of Wisconsin Madison, Meriter Hospital, 6 West, 202 S. Park Street, Madison, WI 53593

The authors developed a web-based data system for the National Centers and National Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health funded by DHHS-Office on Women's Health. ONWRD (Online National Women's Health Research Database), publicly available in November 2004, contains data from the 35 National Centers. The goal of ONWRD is to provide a central location for population data that can be used by the Centers to apply for funding for research and clinical trials that require more than one participating site, specifically those that have the potential to increase recruitment of racial and ethnic minority subjects into clinical research. Data housed in ONWRD also includes clinical trial descriptions, fellowship opportunities, biographical sketches, research interests and listings of participants' scientific publications. The design and implementation of ONWRD was guided by several principles. First, all stages of development were guided by the needs of the primary intended audience, researchers and clinicians at the Centers. Second, agreement on a common set of data elements was obtained by participants. Third, ONWRD was designed to accommodate future data collection and reporting needs, such as those outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors¹ regarding the requirement for public registry of clinical trials.

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