Question & AnswerQ&A (DOH ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2009-0012)
The main objective of DOH Administrative Order No. 2009-0012 is to institutionalize and strengthen the Philippine Renal Disease Registry (PRDR) under the National Epidemiology Center of the Department of Health, and to formalize the involvement of related agencies such as the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI).
The two major components of the PRDR are the Chronic Renal Disease Registry, which includes the Renal Biopsy Registry, and the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Registry, which includes Hemodialysis (HD), Peritoneal Dialysis (PD), and Transplant Registries.
Participating health professionals include nephrologists, transplant surgeons, pathologists, internists, residents and fellows in nephrology and transplantation, nurses, and medical technologists.
The National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Department of Health has overall supervision, allocates annual funds, and provides logistic support for the PRDR.
NKTI-REDCOP performs the overall management and implementation of the PRDR, maintains privacy and confidentiality of patient information, provides technical support, submits regular reports to the Department of Health, and liaises with other agencies for improving PRDR operations.
Health facilities required to participate include hemodialysis centers (both free-standing and hospital-based), peritoneal dialysis units, transplant centers, and other hospital facilities with renal biopsy capability.
Privacy is the right of the patient to control what personal information is released and to whom. Confidentiality is the obligation of public health workers to keep patients' information restricted to only those who need it for community health purposes.
Submission of dialysis patient data forms from each dialysis center to REDCOP is mandatory and linked to the licensing and accreditation requirement enforced by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC).
The PRDR must support the DOH's technical leadership role, contribute to National Objectives for Health and Millennium Development Goals, ensure usefulness and applicability of data, maintain simplicity and flexibility for integration with other registries, uphold partnership and shared responsibility, and guarantee privacy and confidentiality of patient information.
Any existing order inconsistent with the provisions of AO No. 2009-0012 is considered repealed or superseded by this Administrative Order.