General Practitioner Encounter Within 7 Days After Hospital Discharge (Percentage of Patients 65+)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Proportion of hospital discharge followed with a general practitioner's encounter within a 1-weeks period for senior patients (65+).
Numerator
Number of hospitalisations for elderly patients (65+) with at least one GP's encounter within the week (7 days) following the hospital discharge.
Denominator
Number of hospitalisations for elderly patients (65+), alive 1 week after discharge and without new hospital admission in the week following the discharge.
Exclusions
Stays with a length lower than 24 hours (minimum length of stay); stays followed, within 1 week after discharge, by death or re-hospitalisation; stays which are still ongoing for the period of investigation; stays in patients <65 years in the year of the hospital discharge.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
IMA – AIM (InterMutualistisch Agentschap – Agence InterMutualiste) data - billing data collected by all sickness funds, and the IMA – AIM Atlas (an interactive web application) NIHDI billing codes - Condition for the billing is to have at least a contact with the GP during the year. It means that people without any contact during the year are not registered with a GMR even if they still keep their GMR. This phenomenon affects particularly young patient who less often contact the GP a year.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Performance of the Belgium health system report - 2012, 2015, 2019.
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Devos Carl, Cordon Audrey, Lefèvre Mélanie, Obyn Caroline, Renard Françoise, Bouckaert Nicolas, Gerkens Sophie, Maertens de Noordhout Charline, Devleesschauwer Brecht, Haelterman Margareta, Léonard Christian, Meeus Pascal. Performance of the Belgian health system – Report 2019. Health Services Research (HSR). Brussels. Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE). 2019. KCE Reports 313. DOI: 10.57598/R313C. kce.fgov.be/sites/default/files/2021-12/KCE313CPerformanceBelgianhealthsystemReport.pdf