The Cystic Fibrosis DataBase (CFDB) service has the purpose to describe the state of the art of clinical research in cystic fibrosis (CF) and to provide a general summary of the current findings and of areas that require further studies.

The CFDB is a useful tool for:

• clinic and care professionals;
• active researchers in the field of CF;
• people with CF and their family members.

The main objective of the database is to classify systematic reviews of scientific literature and primary studies (randomized and non-randomized, completed and ongoing) in an orderly and user-friendly system (database).

CFDB allows you to get answers to questions such as:

• Which interventions have proven effective?
• In which patients?
• What are the outcomes?
• Are the results of the studies sufficiently robust?
• What is the impact of the literature findings?

The two main functions are:

• Database: search by keywords or free text, by author, or by year, in a collection of approximately 1,400 articles on the clinical effectiveness of cystic fibrosis interventions;
• 50 summary thematic sheets (or topics), on clinical aspects of cystic fibrosis offering a critical overview of the current evidence and highlighting open issues for future research.

The database is structured as a website, freely accessible to the entire international scientific community at the following address: cfdb.eu.

To find out more, please check the presentation  by Dr. Roberto Buzzetti, head of the CFDB, held on 16 January 2024 during the FFC Ricerca Research Services webinars cycle.