Intego

Healthcare/audit partner:

Corilus (Electronic Health Record Vendor)

Research Partners:

Academic Center for General Practice, KU Leuven

context:

Intego is a Flemish (Belgian) primary care morbidity registry that automatically collects EHR data from more than >450 General practitioners on a weekly basis. Intego has built a database that contains about 14 million diagnoses, >150 million laboratory results and 30 million prescriptions for medication.

Aim of Audit:

To pilot different A&F interventions that are built into the EHR of the GP and to use the Intego database as a testing ground / implementation laboratory.

Scope and scale of audit:

After pilot testing, evaluating and improving the automated A&F interventions in the practices of the Intego network, the interventions could be scaled up to national (Belgian) level.

Aim of research:

To automate (built-in) A&F interventions in the EHR of the GP and to investigate different features of feedback.

Audit & Feedback interventions being tested:

An automated A&F intervention to improve the quality of diabetes primary care (work in progress)
An automated A&F intervention to improve antibiotic stewardship in primary care (work in progress)

Evaluation design:

Different cluster RCT designs will be explored to evaluate different features of automated A&F.

oversight:

Intego

For more information: Steve Van den Bulck steve.vandenbulck@kuleuven.be

Ethical approval:

The INTEGO procedures were approved by the KU Leuven Ethics Committee (nr. ML1723) and by the Belgian National Privacy Commission’s Sectoral Committee (decision nr. 13.026 of March 19, 2013, last modified on April 17, 2018).

Audit Funding:

Agency Care & Health (Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid), Flemish Government

Ebpracticenet

Research Funding:

Agency Care & Health (Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid), Flemish Government