How to Develop an Electronic Clinical Endometriosis Research File Integrated in Clinical Practice
Table 3
Overview of WERF EPHect.
Project I
Surgical 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 II
Clinical 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 III
Fluid 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 IV
Tissue 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].