General information on the IQED project

Project name

Initiative for Quality improvement and Epidemiology in diabetes

Project abbreviation

IQED 

Project code

HDBP0011

Primary organization that oversees implementation of project

• Sciensano

Partner organization participating in the project

• Not available

Organization that commissioned this project

• Rijksinstituut voor ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering (RIZIV)

Organization die financiële of materiële steun verleent

• Rijksinstituut voor ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering (RIZIV)

Korte beschrijving van het project

In Belgium, individuals with diabetes who need specialized treatment are followed-up in hospital-based centers in the context of a convention. About 100 diabetes centers throughout Belgium are recognized by the INAMI-RIZIV. Through regular data collections, the IQED project monitors quality of care in these centers and provides individualized feedback, helping the centers to improve their quality of care. The project is executed by Sciensano and governed by a group of national experts.

The IQED project studies the quality of care of adult patients with diabetes. The project has 2 goals: 

• The main goal is to perform an audit of the quality of care to patients with diabetes and to promote the improvement of quality with health care professionals 
• The second goal is to analyse the evolution and the impact of health care on patients with diabetes and to study diabetes from an epidemiological point of view.

Regulatory framework of this project

Consult the regulatory framework information published on the fair.healthdata.be pages.