Notifiable Infectious diseases register: Flanders

The database contains the variables collected in relation to the list of notifiable diseases in Flanders.

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Field	Value
Modified	2020-08-09
Release Date	2018-05-08
Identifier	9a3adbe9-8067-470a-aeae-c8affcdfde3e
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Notifiable Infectious diseases register: Flanders
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	Zorg en Gezondheid [Toezicht Volksgezondheid, Team infectieziektebestrijding en vaccinatie]

Commissioner(s)

Organisation that commissioned this project
Name of organisation	Ruud Mak

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	No

General information

General information
Project description	The database contains the variables collected in relation to the list of notifiable diseases in Flanders.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Infectious Diseases Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Virus Diseases Parasitic Diseases

Objective of the project
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Epidemiology

Legal basis

Type of legal basis
Type of legal basis	Federated parliament Decree

Legal documents
Full reference of legal document	21 november 2003. - Decreet betreffende het preventieve gezondheidsbeleid (1) (Publicatie:3 februari 2004)
URL to legal document	http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/mopdf/2004/02/03_1.pdf#Page34

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Daily

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	Web application (eg. online registration form, upload)

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	Unknown

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

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

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	Yes
Full name committee	Sectoral Committee National Project (Privacy Commission)
Date of decision	2009-04-29
Title decision	Voorontwerpbesluit van de Vlaamse Regering betreffende initiatieven om uitbreiding van schadelijke effecten, veroorzaakt door biotische factoren, tegen te gaan (A/2009/009)
Nr. Decision	RR 15/2009

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	ICD
Version	ICD 10

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	1999
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	allowed character checks; batch totals; checks for missing records; cardinality check; check digits; consistency checks; control totals; cross-system consistency checks; data type checks; format check; limit check; logic check; presence check; range check; referential integrity; spelling and grammar check; uniqueness check; Table Look Up Checkallowed character checks
Data compilation process	data input and 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	No information available
Participation rate of the health professionals	No information available
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	Comparability across the Belgian regions is restricted to some extend
Comparable or reconcilable over time	Comparability over time is restricted to some extent
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	25357
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?	Yes

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