NeuroTransData (NTD) is a Germany-wide network of physicians in the field of neurology and psychiatry. The members are recruited from modern and state-of-the-art practices with large numbers of patients throughout Germany. The NTD network currently consists of 74 practices and 134 shareholders. Each practice is certified according to ISO 9001 and further network-specific criteria. Compliance with these criteria is considered an official standard. All practices are reviewed annually in an audit by an external certified audit organization.
The NTD practices are treating approximately 600,000 patients per year. The NTD outpatient centers have long-standing experience in the implementation and conduct of non-interventional studies and clinical trials of all phases and designs.
In order to standardize documentation and to enable centralized monitoring across the network, all centers are connected via a web-based database. The NTD database has been approved by the ethical committee of the Bavarian Medical Board (Bayerische Landesärztekammer, 14.06.2012) and re-approved by the ethical committee of the Medical Board North-Rhine (Ärztekammer Nordrhein, 25.04.2017).
The aforementioned established structures, cross-network standards and experience of NTD centers also offer a qualified platform for the performance of statistical analyses of registry data. Due to the data pool in the NTD database, which is unique in Germany, the NTD network is able to answer current, clinically relevant questions in different indications (dementia, depression, epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, parkinson and motor disorders, schizophrenia), to significantly contribute to a better understanding of the disease and to optimize treatment success for the individual patient.