Documents Pat

Yearly statistical tabels concerning the number of patients of the general practicioners.

Field	Value
Publisher	National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV-INAMI)
Modified	2021-02-27
Release Date	2018-07-02
Identifier	4a31e678-eb3a-431f-85f7-ed8da5375c99
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Documents Pat
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	Doc Pat
Source type	Administrative sources

Sponsor(s)

Primary organization that oversees implementation of study and is responsible for data analysis.
Name of organisation	National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance [Dienst Geneeskundige Verzorging, Directie Onderzoek, Ontwikkeling en Kwaliteitspromotie]

Commissioner(s)

Organisation that commissioned this project
Name of organisation	National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance
Website(s) of organisation	Website

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	No information available

General information

General information
Project description	Yearly statistical tabels concerning the number of patients of the general practicioners.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Blood and lymphatic diseases Cancer Cardiovascular Diseases Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities Digestive System Diseases Ear, nose and throat diseases Eye Diseases Female diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems and pregancy complications Hormonal diseases Immune System Diseases Infectious Diseases Injuries, poisonings, and occupational diseases Male diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems Mouth and tooth diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Nervous System Diseases Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Parasitic Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Symptoms and general pathology Virus Diseases

Objective of the project
Main objective of the project	Insights into the practitioner's profile regarding: The number of patient's contacts The number of different patients he/she has The balance between the number of consultations versus home visits The gravity of the pathologies (e.g. non-necessary medical imaging studies Prescripted clinical biology Prescripted medical imaging
Scientific relevance of the project	These databases are essentially meant for internal utilization (accountancy & actuary) in the context of RIZIV/INAMIs legal framework. However, for scientific studies they can be very useful for (pre)assessment and control purposes.
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Public Administration

Legal basis

Type of legal basis
Type of legal basis	National Law Royal Decree

Legal documents
Full reference of legal document (1)	14 July 1994. - Law concerning the obligated insurance for medical care and payments, coordinated 14th of July 1994. (Publication: 27th of Augustus 1994)
URL to legal document (1)	http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&cn=1994071438&table_name=wet
Full reference of legal document (2)	3 July 1996. - Royal decree to execution of the low concerning the obligated insurance for medical care and payments, coordinated the 14th of July, 1994. (publication: 31 July 1996)
URL to legal document (2)	http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&cn=1996070337&table_name=wet

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Yearly

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	Unknown

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project
Care Giver	Physicians
Specialty of physicians involved (encoding) in the project	General practitioners

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	No information available
How are subjects informed?	No information available
Do subjects have to give their consent?	No information available
How do subjects give their consent?	No information available
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to consult their registered information?	No information available
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to correct their registered information?	No information available
Additional information	No additional information available

Review

Ethics Committee
Authorization by an Ethics Committee?	No information available

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

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

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 dictionary

Classifications and Terminology
Name	Unknown

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	1996 (2000: DWH RIZIV)
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	cross-system consistency check (INAMI)
Data compilation process	No information available
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	No information available
Participation rate of the health institutions	No information available
Participation rate of the health professionals	No information available
Extent of unit non-response	No information available
Extent of the item non-response	The rate of item non-response is not known or unacceptably high (>50%)
Extend to which the collected data are comparable across the Belgian regions	Comparability across the Belgian areas is unknown
Comparable or reconcilable over time	Comparability over time is unknown
Additional information	No additional information available
Extent of problems with the misclassification of statistical units for their key variables	No information available
Can records belonging to same entity be matched?	No information available
Additional information	Exclusions spécifiques / limitations:'- médecins spécialistes exclus, - uniquement basé sur prestations remboursées dans le cadre de l'assurance obligatoire soins de santé

Data storage

Data storage
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)?	No information available
Additional information	No additional information available

Data access

Data access
Written Data sharing policy?	No information available

License