Review Article

How to Develop an Electronic Clinical Endometriosis Research File Integrated in Clinical Practice

Table 3

Overview of WERF EPHect.

Project ISurgical phenotype data collection in endometriosis research
Provides a standard recommended and a minimum required surgical form (SSF and MSF) to collect data on the surgical phenotype of endometriosis.

Project IIClinical and covariate phenotype data collection in endometriosis research
Provides a standard recommended and minimum required self-administered endometriosis patient questionnaire (EPQ) to capture detailed clinical and covariate data.

Project IIIFluid biospecimen collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research
Provides recommended and minimum required standard operating procedures for biofluid collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research.

Project IVTissue collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research
Provides standard recommended and minimum required standard operating procedures for tissue collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research.

Summary of Becker et al., 2014 [17], Vitonis et al., 2014 [18], Rahmioglu et al., 2014 [19], and Fassbender et al., 2014 [20].