Clinical and Laboratory Online Patient- and Research Database for Primary Immunodeficiencies in Switzerland

The project aims to compile clinical and laboratory data of patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PID) in order to improve diagnosis, classification, prognosis and therapy. The online technology offers features not available in former databases such as access control,security functionality, and maintenance of data integrity during transactions and system errors, online back up, online optimization, scalability and online SQL-queries as well as a long term documentation of patients.

Furthermore the database can be used for the submission and storage of molecular diagnostic results and thus allow the compilation of genotype and phenotype observations, which is of essential and immediate use for the patient himself and patient care. An attending physician may gain information on similar cases of a rare PID disease in Switzerland and European countries and use these insights for therapy. In addition, it will be possible to obtain an insight on side effects. Thus, the system also meets the requirements of an optimal platform for Phase IV studies of post-licensing drug surveillance-programs.