Pay for Quality
Pay for Quality
Pay for Quality
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122 <strong>Pay</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> KCE Reports 118<br />
hospitals pay a periodic fee to support benchmarking<br />
operations. An initiative like the hospital benchmarking in<br />
the Vlaams Ziekenhuisnetwerk provides indirect positive<br />
financial incentives through other shared services like<br />
material purchasing.<br />
Results (if available) No results evaluation available, with the exception of<br />
periodic hospital feedback reports.<br />
Sources (most relevant ones) See KCE report vol. 41 259<br />
PATH:<br />
http://www.euro.who.int/document/e89742.pdf<br />
IQED:<br />
http://www.iph.fgov.be/EPIDEMIO/epien/PROG33.HTM<br />
Navigator:<br />
http://www.navigator.czv.be<br />
Delta:<br />
http://www.czv.kuleuven.be<br />
Vlaams Ziekenhuisnetwerk:<br />
http://www.vznkul.be/root/index.html<br />
360° and patient safety indicator project: internal documents<br />
provided by FOD-VVVL<br />
Total budget Unknown (not publicly available)<br />
Table 19: <strong>Quality</strong> and patient safety in hospitals<br />
XIII. QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY IN HOSPITALS<br />
Initiated by Federal government.<br />
Overall objective To support the systematic use of quality improvement<br />
strategies, with attention <strong>for</strong> multiple quality domains<br />
Date of implementation in Belgium Since July 2007, additional financing has been approved within<br />
the remuneration of hospitals and this <strong>for</strong> the co-ordination of<br />
the quality and patient safety in Belgian hospitals.<br />
Target audience Hospitals (general, psychiatric, rehabilitation)<br />
Content Contract year 2007-2008: Six parts<br />
The mission, vision, goals and strategy with regard to quality<br />
and patient safety<br />
The first part of the contract aimed at further stimulating the<br />
hospitals into <strong>for</strong>mulating a mission, a vision, goals and<br />
strategic objectives that also integrate patient safety.<br />
Structures and functions with regard to quality and patient<br />
safety<br />
Within the framework of the second part of the contract, the<br />
hospitals were asked to give an overview of the existing<br />
structures with regard to quality and patient safety by means of<br />
an organisation chart. These are the committees or functions<br />
that are financed by the federal government and/or legally<br />
imposed.<br />
Hospital survey on patient safety culture<br />
The third part of the contract aimed at assessing the patient<br />
safety culture. The federal authorities have used the Hospital<br />
Survey on Patient Safety Culture of the AHRQ (Agency <strong>for</strong><br />
Healthcare Research and <strong>Quality</strong>) to do so.<br />
Reporting and analysing (near) incidents<br />
The fourth part of the contract related to the reporting and<br />
analysing of incidents and near incidents.<br />
The description of three quality projects<br />
The fifth part of the contract related to the description of<br />
three new quality projects: one <strong>for</strong> the field of ‘economic