PFF Patient Registry

The PFF Patient Registry is a valuable research tool available in the fight against PF.  People living with PF who choose to enroll in the registry share detailed medical information that will be used for research. The registry contains information about how each person’s diagnosis was made, symptoms from PF, medical test results, the use of medications used to treat PF, and even captures information about how people are doing during years after enrolling. After thousands of people living with PF share their medical information with the Registry, scientists will be able to use the Registry to discover the causes of PF and help lead us toward a cure.

All Registry data will come from patients seen at PFF Care Center sites, ensuring standard collection of high-quality information. The information is always de-identified, which means that researchers who use it can never learn whose medical data it is.

Registry participants may choose to contribute a blood sample to be stored for future research. When combined with the information in the Registry, these samples will help scientists find new causes of PF, track the effects of PF treatments, improve the ways doctors diagnose and manage people living with PF, and help discover new treatments.

NEW: For details on the Registry, you may download the Registry protocol here.

Research is the pathway to a cure for PF. The Registry’s combination of data from so many patients, including those with less-studied forms of PF, will generate an unparalleled resource for future research into treatments and provide data for improving and reassessing evidence-based care guidelines.

Our initial target is the collection of data from 2,000 patients with all kinds of PF to create the largest research resource of its kind in support of the following goals:

Collect medical information to support research that develops new ways to improve the quality of the lives of people with PF

Create a Registry of patients with PF for participation in additional research studies in the future

Collect data on the patterns of clinical care delivered at PFF Care Centers, which can improve our understanding of the most effective ways to care for people with PF

Over time, and with additional funding, we aim to:

Increase the sources of data we can gather, for example by adding data from patients’ local pulmonologists

Gather more blood samples from Registry patients in order to look at the relationships between biomarkers and clinical data over time

Enroll more than 2,000 patients to better study each different type of disease causing pulmonary fibrosis

Share this resource with as many researchers as possible to support research into the understanding of pulmonary fibrosis

Use Registry data to continuously reassess and improve evidence-based clinical guidelines

NEW: For details on the Registry, you may download the Registry protocol here.

Patients with PF who are being seen at any of our participating Care Center Network sites may be eligible to participate in the Registry. View map of CCN sites. 

Participation does not require additional visits or changes to your medical care or PF treatment. Patients will be asked to share their de-identified medical data with the Registry, complete short questionnaires during each appointment, and possibly contribute a blood sample to the biorepository.

If you are a patient interested in participating, contact the care team at your CCN site to learn more. 

Interested researchers who are not members of a Registry team must include a Registry investigator as a collaborator on their proposal.  A list of these investigators can be found here.

All proposals will be reviewed and scored by a review panel.  Investigators of approved proposals will be contacted by a statistician from the data coordinating center (DCC) to develop a statistical analysis plan (SAP).  In most cases, analyses of clinical data will be performed by the DCC statisticians, following that SAP.



To review the PFF Ancillary Studies Policy, click here.

For complete PFF Ancillary Studies submission instructions, click here.

For a list of the completed and ongoing Registry research projects, click here.

To review the data elements captured in the Registry, download the casebook here.

To begin you application, click here. 

You can download the Registry protocol here.

If you have questions about submitting research proposals, contact us at ccn@pulmonaryfibrosis.org.

All data included in the PFF Patient Registry will be used to foster research to better understand PF, drive toward a cure, and improve the lives of those living with PF. See the chart below.

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The PFF Patient Registry is funded through the generous support of corporations, foundations, and individuals who have been impacted by PF. With a shared belief that a comprehensive registry is fundamentally important to improving the lives of those affected by the disease. If you would like to contribute to this important program, please donate now.

For more information, call 844.TalkPFF (844.825.5733) or email pcc@pulmonaryfibrosis.org.