Good medicine needs solid knowledge: For example, about the different ways these diseases progress, the effectiveness of medications, and your well-being as the patient.
Who is SCQM?
Our name may sound complicated - Swiss Clinical Quality Management (SCQM). But our approach is quite simple: we want to facilitate optimal cooperation between specialised doctors and researchers and thus open new avenues in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. This is why the SCQM Foundation was established in 1997.
What is our goal?
The more you know about diseases, the better you can treat them. That is why reliable information is extremely important for medical progress - especially in the case of complex diseases such as inflammatory rheumatism. We collect this information and make it available to your treatment specialists as well as to researchers in coded form. Our goal? We want to achieve better quality and new insights into rheumatism treatment: for you personally, for future generations, and for medical professionals.
Why is medical data particularly important?
Today when we use the word ‘information’, what we really mean is ‘data’. This is why we have set up a comprehensive patient registry. Here, data on specific diseases is collected in a standardised way and made available to researchers and the specialists treating the patients. In this way, we bring together what belongs together: treatment methods and medications, disease progression, and the well-being of patients. The advantage of this approach: correlations become visible and improvements become measurable.
Which rheumatic diseases are we collecting data about?
Throughout Switzerland, information on the following diseases is collected in the SCQM registry:
- Rheumatoid arthritis (polyarthritis)
- Axial Spondyloarthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Giant cell arteritis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
How can I support SCQM?
With your participation in the SCQM patient registry, you can make a valuable contribution to rheumatism research and improve the quality of treatment. You personally also benefit from our database - thanks to the web app "mySCQM", which gives you a transparent overview of your disease progression.
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