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Welcome to the IBM Registry

A collaborative work between Yale Public Health, medical professionals and proactive people with IBM

About Us

You can read more about us by continuing below or you can go directly to some Frequently Asked Questions now and come back to here later.

  • About the Survey

    Beginning in 2012, a group of researchers at Yale undertook development of a self-reporting questionnaire of IBM patients in North America in order to collect both clinical and demographic data. We are most grateful to actively interested patients together with The Myositis Association and the Muscular Dystrophy Association who collaborated with us to make this possible.

  • Get Involved…Help Beat IBM!

    Join the Registry (see below), and if you wish, you can obtain your personal measure on the IBM Personalized Index Calculator developed by our research team with the data from our national survey. By answering a few short questions about yourself, your medical history, and your physical functioning, the Calculator will provide you with a personalized graph showing you how your score on the IBM functional rating scale (a measure originally developed by C.E. Jackson and Colleagues) compares to that of all the patients in our survey. The Calculator is completely free, completely confidential, and we will never save or share any of the information you type into it.