European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies - Antwerp

Eurocat Antwerp is part of an European network of population based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of congenital anomalies

Data and Resources

Epidemiology

General Hospitals

Nurses

Physicians

Field	Value
Publisher	Provinciebestuur Antwerpen [Provinciaal Instituut voor Hygiëne (PIH)]
Modified	2020-09-28
Release Date	2018-05-10
Identifier	7253d498-297f-4e6a-b684-90fe0ea471e2
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies - Antwerp
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	No abbreviation available
Source type	Patient registries

Sponsor(s)

Primary organization that oversees implementation of study and is responsible for data analysis.
Name of organisation	Provinciebestuur Antwerpen [Provinciaal Instituut voor Hygiëne (PIH)]

Commissioner(s)

Organisation that commissioned this project
Name of organisation	Provinciebestuur Antwerpen

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	Yes
Name of Steering/Accompanying Committee (1)	Stuurgroep Eurocat
Composition of Steering/Accompanying Committee (1)	physicians of University Hospital Antwerp

General information

General information
Project description	Eurocat Antwerp is part of an European network of population based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of congenital anomalies

Therapeutic area
Disease	Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Objective of the project
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Epidemiology

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Half-yearly

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	Other method
Other method of data transfer: specification	data collection on the field

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	General hospitals Group practices

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project
Care Giver	Physicians Midwives Nurses
Specialty of physicians involved (encoding) in the project	Cardiology Gynaecology and obstetrics Paediatrics Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery Surgery Urology Other medical specialisation General practitioners

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	Yes
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?	Yes
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to correct their registered information?	Yes
Describe the procedures to provide the subjects the ability to consult and correct the information	The GP/Physician can consult the register
Describe the procedures to provide the subjects the ability to consult and correct the information	The GP/Physician can consult the register
Additional information	Opting out procedure

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	Yes
Full name committee	Sectoral Committee National Project (Privacy Commission)
Date of decision	1995-07-13
Title decision	aangifte
Nr. Decision	000036523

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

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

Data dictionary

Classifications and Terminology
Name	ATC/DDD
Version	2013
Name	ICD
Version	ICD 10

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	1989
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	No information available
Data compilation process	No information available
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	Not applicable
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	There is nearly no item non-response
Necessity of editing the raw data	Not applicable
Extend to which the collected data are comparable across the Belgian regions	There are no restrictions concerning the comparability across the Belgian regions
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?	Yes, no restriction in time
Additional information	No additional information available

Data storage

Data storage
Total number of unique records	9240
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?	Yes

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