Databank Studiecentrum voor Perinatale Epidemiologie (Flanders)

All deliveries taking place in Flemish maternity hospitals, are registered in the database. We collect about 50 pre-, peri- and postnatal items of mother and child. When the baby is transferred to a neonatal unit, there is an additional registration.

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Epidemiology

General Hospitals

Physicians

Zorg en Gezondheid

Field	Value
Publisher	Zorg en Gezondheid
Modified	2021-02-27
Release Date	2018-03-30
Identifier	06a74fff-0bf0-42c4-b18c-9b80634cf888
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Databank Studiecentrum voor Perinatale Epidemiologie (Flanders)
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	SPE
Source type	Patient registries

Sponsor(s)

Primary organization that oversees implementation of study and is responsible for data analysis.
Name of organisation	Zorg en Gezondheid

Commissioner(s)

Organisation that commissioned this project
Name of organisation	Zorg en Gezondheid
Website(s) of organisation	Website

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	Yes
Name of Steering/Accompanying Committee (1)	Raad van Bestuur Studiecentrum voor Perinatale Epidemiologie (SPE)
Composition of Steering/Accompanying Committee (1)	Hendrik Cammu, Kris De Coen, Roland Devlieger, Yves Jacquemyn, Monika Laubach, Anne Loccufier, Gunnar Naulaers, Kristien Roelens, Hilde Van Hauthem, Christine Van Mol, Patrick Van Reempts.Voorzitter van de groep is Hendrik Cammu. Raad van Bestuur SPE: Hendrik Cammu, Kris De Coen, Roland Devlieger, Yves Jacquemyn, Monika Laubach, Anne Loccufier, Gunnar Naulaers, Kristien Roelens, Hilde Van Hauthem, Christine Van Mol, Patrick Van Reempts. Voorzitter van de groep is Hendrik Cammu.
Name of Steering/Accompanying Committee (2)	Wetenschappelijk Commité Studiecentrum voor Perinatale Epidemiologie (SPE)
Composition of Steering/Accompanying Committee (2)	Annick Bogaerts, Maria Breughelmans, Fleur Camfferman, Hendrik Cammu, Luc De Catte, Kris De Coen, Bart De Keersmaeker, Ilse Delbaere, Roland Devlieger, Mieke Embo, Erik Hendrickx, Yves Jacquemyn, Philippe Jeannin, Monika Laubach, Anne Loccufier, Gunnar Naulaers, Marlene Reyns, Kristien Roelens, Ellen Roets, Elke Sleurs, Sabine Van de Vijver, Hilde Van Hauthem, David Van Laere, Christine Van Mol, Patrick Van Reempts. Voorzitter van de groep is Roland Devlieger

General information

General information
Project description	All deliveries taking place in Flemish maternity hospitals, are registered in the database. We collect about 50 pre-, peri- and postnatal items of mother and child. When the baby is transferred to a neonatal unit, there is an additional registration.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Female diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems and pregancy complications Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Objective of the project
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Epidemiology

Legal basis

Type of legal basis
Type of legal basis	Ministerial Decree Other

Legal documents
Full reference of legal document (1)	$$$ Ministerieel besluit tot toekenning van een subsidie aan het Studiecentrum voor Perinatale Epidiomologie $$$
Full reference of legal document (2)	Verwerkingscontract, contract voor de verwerking van gecodeerde persoonsgegevens tussen VAZG en SPE
URL to legal document (2)	pdf in mailbox

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Yearly

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	Post Web service (system to system transfer)

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	General hospitals

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project
Care Giver	Physicians Midwives
Specialty of physicians involved (encoding) in the project	Gynaecology and obstetrics Paediatrics

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	No
How are subjects informed?	Not applicable
Do subjects have to give their consent?	No
How do subjects give their consent?	Not applicable
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to consult their registered information?	No
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to correct their registered information?	No
Additional information	No additional information available

Review

Ethics Committee
Authorization by an Ethics Committee?	No

Sectoral Committee National Registry (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	No

Sectoral Committee Health / Social affairs (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	Yes
Full name committee	Sectoral Committee Health / Social affairs (Privacy Commission)
Date of decision	2012-01-27
Title decision	Beraadslaging nr 12/004 van 17 januari 2012 met betrekking tot de mededeling van gecodeerde persoonsgegevens die de gezondheid betreffen door het vlaams Zorg en Gezondheid aan het studiecentrum voor perinatale epidemiologie
Nr. Decision	SCSZ 12/010

Sectoral Committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises of the Privacy Commission (Y/N)	No information available

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	1987
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	We use an error control programme consisting of checks for missing records, consistency checks, control totals and data type checks.
Data compilation process	No information available
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	On time
Participation rate of the health institutions	Very high (80-100%)
Participation rate of the health professionals	Very high (80-100%)
Extent of unit non-response	Very low or none (0-4%)
Extent of the item non-response	There is nearly no item non-response
Necessity of editing the raw data	There is a lot of item non-response (15% to under 50%)
Extend to which the collected data are comparable across the Belgian regions	Not applicable
Comparable or reconcilable over time	There are no restrictions concerning comparability over time
Additional information	No additional information available
Extent of problems with the misclassification of statistical units for their key variables	Very low or none (0-4%)
Can records belonging to same entity be matched?	No
Additional information	No additional information available

Data storage

Data storage
Total number of unique records	1600000
The organisation in charge of storage of the collected data, is certified as being compliant with the international standards on information security management system (eg. ISO27001)?	Yes
Additional information	No additional information available

Data access

Data access
Written Data sharing policy?	No

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