Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Use in European Long Term Care Facilities

The database consists of two parts. One contains the institutional data collected by the institutional questionnaire and included info on the general characteristics of the long-term care facility, denominator data, medical care organisation and coordination, infection control practices and antimicrobial stewardship in the long-term care facility. The second part contains information collected by a resident questionnaire which had to be completed for each resident presenting signs/symptoms of an infection and/or using an antimicrobial on the day of the point prevalence survey. This part of the database thus contains general information about the resident (age, gender, care load indicators and risk factors), data on the antimicrobial treatment and/or information on the type of infection.

Data and Resources

Epidemiology

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment

National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance

Nurses

Physicians

Quality of care research

Field	Value
Publisher	Sciensano
Modified	2021-05-15
Release Date	2018-03-13
Identifier	9609d591-2d09-45ce-8972-c40f34d4ca26
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Use in European Long Term Care Facilities
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	NSIH HAI EU
Source type	Patient registries

Sponsor(s)

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

Commissioner(s)

Organisation (1) that commissioned this project
Name of organisation (1)	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Website(s) of organisation (1)	Website

Organisation (2) that commissioned this project
Name of organisation (2)	Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment - cell quality and patient safety
Website(s) of organisation (2)	Website

Source(s) of Monetary or Material Support

Organisation (1) providing support
Name of organisation (1)	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Website(s) of organisation (1)	Website

Organisation (2) providing support
Name of organisation (2)	National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance
Website(s) of organisation (2)	Website

Additional information	Survey organised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Voluntary participation National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance: funding of data collection by healthdata.be

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	No

General information

General information
Project description	The database consists of two parts. One contains the institutional data collected by the institutional questionnaire and included info on the general characteristics of the long-term care facility, denominator data, medical care organisation and coordination, infection control practices and antimicrobial stewardship in the long-term care facility. The second part contains information collected by a resident questionnaire which had to be completed for each resident presenting signs/symptoms of an infection and/or using an antimicrobial on the day of the point prevalence survey. This part of the database thus contains general information about the resident (age, gender, care load indicators and risk factors), data on the antimicrobial treatment and/or information on the type of infection.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Infectious Diseases Bacterial Infections and Mycoses

Objective of the project
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Epidemiology Quality of care research

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Other frequency
Other frequency: specification	Depends on when the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control organizes the survey

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	E-mail (unsecured) Post

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	Residential care centers and nursing homes Specialized services for treatment and rehabilitation (cf NIHDI conventions)

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

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

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	Yes
Do subjects have to give their consent?	Yes
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	It is up to the long-term care facilities to provide information on the study and to ask informed consent.

Review

Ethics Committee
Authorization by an Ethics Committee?	Yes
Full name committee	Commissie Medische Ethiek, Reflectiegroep Biomedische Ethiek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Date of decision	2013-03-26
Title decision	B.U.N. 143201316892 (HALT-2 project)

Sectoral Committee National Registry (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	Not applicable

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

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	2013
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	checks for missing records, consistency checks, correctness of data...
Data compilation process	data editing
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	Less then 6 months (but more than 1 month) after the communicated deadline
Participation rate of the health institutions	Very low (0-19%)
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 little item non-response (<5%)
Necessity of editing the raw data	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 regions is seriously restricted
Comparable or reconcilable over time	Not applicable
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
Additional information	Only the long-term care facility can eventually trace back the resident ID.

Data storage

Data storage
Total number of unique records	554
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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Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Use in European Long Term Care Facilities

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