What are the mandatory fields for studies, substudies or data collections?

The mandatory fields in each section are: 

General information:  

  • Title/name
  • Language of the title/name  
  • Description 
  • Language of the description

Contributors:  

  • Personal/organisational (at least one contributor must be entered) 
  • Type of contributor (e.g. contact)  
  • Name of contributor

Study design:  

  • Primary design 
  • Study type 
  • ICD groups of diseases 
  • Primary study subject 
  • Study country(ies)

Administrative information:  

  • Overall study status 
  • Data sharing plans 

Although you can publish your research data in the Health Study Hub by submitting only the information in the mandatory fields, we encourage you to provide as much information as possible to improve the discoverability of your resources.