First year (2007) analysis of the Hungarian pediatric inflammatory bowel disease registry (HUPIR)

Background, aims: On behalf of the of Hungarian Pediatric Gastroenterology Society prospective registry of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was launched from the 1st of January 2007 with the cooperation of 27 institutes ensuring the coverage of the whole country. The survey data has been forwarded online to the center of the European Pediatric IBD Registry (Rotterdam). So far the incidence of IBD in Hungary is unknown. Methods: The participating institutes are requested to fill out questionnaire (78 parameters) about every newly diagnosed IBD patients younger than 18 years. The questionnaire is about e…