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KCE Reports 319 (2019, 2ed.)    

KCE Reports 318 (2019) How to refer to this document? Full report: Mistiaen P, Cornelis J, Detollenaere J, Devriese S, Farfan-Portet MI, Ricour C. Organisation of mental health care for adults in Belgium. Health Services Research (HSR) Brussels: Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE). 2019. KCE Reports 318. D/2019/10.273/50. Chapter 01: Detollenaere J, Cornelis J, Devriese S, Mistiaen P, Ricour C. Description of the Belgian mental health care within the general health care organisation.

KCE Reports 314 (2019) Under the insurance Law of 4 April 2014 a  “monitoring office for insurance premiums’ was established. Its mission is to examine proposals for premium supplements or refusals by insurances that guarantee the repayment of the capital of a credit (Art. 217). Article 218 of this law provides that KCE conducts a study to assess whether the premiums charged by the insurers are in line with the evolution of medical techniques and health care, with regard to the main pathologies concerned.

KCE Reports 315 (2019)  

KCE Reports 313 (2019)  

KCE Reports 312 (2019)

KCE Reports 311 (2019)  

KCE Reports 309 (2019)  

KCE Reports 304 (2018) It is estimated that nearly 400,000 people in our country suffer from incontinence of varying degrees. Approximately one-quarter of these persons receive an annual lump sum from INAMI, based on certain conditions.

KCE Reports 305 (2019) For several years, KCE has undertaken background work to improve the quality of care to patients with cancer, together with the Cancer Registry Foundation and College of Oncology. Over time, this project should lead to a true system of quality monitoring, including clinical recommendations, quality indicators and a hospital benchmarking and feedback dynamic. This year, efforts have concentrated on head and neck cancers.

KCE Reports 303 (2018) Satisfaction questionnaires are increasingly used everywhere and hospitals are not immune to this trend.

KCE Reports 302 (2018) Hospital financial reform stipulates that hospital stays be divided into three “clusters” based on the variability of care, with each cluster benefiting from a different form of financing.

KCE Reports 301 (2018) Children and adults have their specific networks for mental healthcare but what about elderly people? Is it necessary to organise their care in a separate network or can it be integrated into the “adult” healthcare system? To this question we have responded that the chronological age should not be a decisive criterion, because some “elderly” people are in top shape, active and independent, while others are very fragile and dependent. Thus the current network of adult care needs to be broadened to include the population’s higher age groups.

KCE Reports 300 (2018) The sequencing of the entire genome is a new form of genetic testing which, instead of targeting certain isolated genes, decodes all of an individual’s genes all at once (= his or her genome). This technology is advancing rapidly and its costs are decreasing, which suggests that it could soon displace conventional testing. This is not without a certain number of problems which are ethical (because geneticists will be faced with information they did not request) and also organisational and financial in nature.

KCE Reports 299 (2018) Agreements with the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) are a means of financing care which primarily applies to multidisciplinary care, particularly in the rehabilitation sector. There are currently 34 of them; they encompass a varied array of services and concern a large range of chronic and/or complex problems: diabetes, dementia, respiratory disease, rare metabolic diseases, genital mutilation, etc. At the request of NIHDI, we developed a method allowing their quality and effectiveness to be evaluated (and possibly improved).

KCE Reports 296 (2017)  

KCE Reports 295 (2017)  

KCE Reports 293 (2017) Table of Contents   Chapter 1: Organisation of Health care in Belgian prisons Chapter 2: Health problems and health care utilisation in Belgian prisons Chapter 3: Systematic review of healthcare use and needs of prisoners Chapter 4: Organization models of health care services in prisons in four countries Chapter 5: Financial aspects of health care in Belgian prisons Chapter 6: Organisation of health care in Belgian prisons – legal framework Chapter 7: Competences for the organisation of health care, health promotion, prevention and wellbeing in Belgian prisons

KCE Reports 292 (2017)

KCE Reports 291 (2017) - Update 2019