Barbara Daly, PhD, RN

Registries, large databases of patient information collected in a systematic, standardized fashion, most often focus on biologic measures, such as pathology, radiology, and laboratory results, to track incidence and prevalence of disease as well as causative factors.

Barbara Daly, PhD, RN, from the Case Western Reserve University, discusses the feasibility of establishing a psychosocial data registry for patients with cancer.