Commentary: Clinical registries

Clinical registries are good and important potential sources for enhancing our knowledge of diseases, therapy outcomes, and the effect of diseases on our patients. Physicians who volunteer to enroll their patients in these registries must be willing to spend the time obtaining patient consent, filling out questionnaires, and obtaining photographs for documentation. Participation in such a registry does not bring academic kudos or authorship in most cases. It has been my experience that most dermatologists who participate are doing so because they want to contribute to our base of knowledge.

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