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The British Association of Dermatologists Biologic Interventions Register (BADBIR) is a national register of all patients receiving biologic therapy for the treatment of psoriasis in the United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended that all patients in the UK receiving these new therapies for Psoriasis should be registered in BADBIR. BADBIR has grown to be the largest psoriasis study of its kind globally.

The main goal of B.R.I.D.G.E. is to profile databases from around the world with the most current information. Therefore, B.R.I.D.G.E. profiles databases as new ones are created. We usually work with each database manager to ensure their database profile is complete and accurate. Although we try to include as many profiles on our web site as possible, we unfortunately cannot profile every database.

Established in January 2015, the Estonian Cancer Screening Register records data on the 3 available population-based cancer screenings in Estonia: breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. While the breast cancer screening started in 2003, and the cervical cancer screening in 2006, the data have been added to ECSR only since 2015, while colorectal cancer screening data in Estonia were added to the register in 2016.

In addition to being a unique online reference for population healthcare databases and registries, the B.R.I.D.G.E.

The Norwegian Cardiovascular Disease Registry is a national health register with individually identifiable data that was established to improve the quality of health care for people with cardiovascular disease. The registry was passed into law by the government in March 2010, and data for the register are available starting 2012, with ongoing, annual updates.

Its purpose is to collect in one file information on all recorded cases of acute coronary occlusion in Iceland, together with information on risk factors and treatment among persons aged 25-74. It includes selected data on all cases of acute coronary occlusion diagnosed since 1981.

B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA® is the most recent and updated version of the RAD-AR (Risk Assessment of Drugs-

The Estonian Drug Treatment Register was established in 2020. All health care providers treating drug dependence are required to send notification to the Register when starting or finishing a treatment episode. Each record contains personal identifiers (name and unique ID-code assigned to all residents of Estonia), socio-demographic characteristics, drugs used, date and code of diagnosis (ICD-10), as well as data on treatment episode.

The Registry for Monitoring Fetal Damage and Chromosomal Abnormalities contains information on birth defects since 1964. Data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register are available since 1973, and data from the Swedish Patient Register are available since 1987. This specific register contains information on newborns, live births and stillborn children, who have a gestational age of at least 22 completed weeks of pregnancy and who have congenital malformations, deformities and chromosomal abnormalities.