Database: Cancer Procedures (Lithuania)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data; survey.

Primary purpose: Register and surveil the number of performed procedures.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Higienos Intitutas.

Type of information: longitudinal. Hospital services (the number of inpatients, day cases, their structure by group of diseases, sex and age, average length of stay, other activities of hospital beds); The number of medical procedures, Out-patient services (the number of visits to physicians and dentists, the number of ambulance services, etc.); The use of medical technologies – the number of diagnostic examinations (computed tomography exams, magnetic resonance imaging exams, positron emission tomography exams). Click here to learn more

Available type of information: Number of surgical operations and medical procedures performed in hospitals; Crude number and number per 100 000 inhabitants by type of surgical procedure, including prostatectomy and mastectomy; type of patient; year; Hospital day cases; diagnosis, devices, age; sex.

Source of information: Compulsory Health Insurance Fund Information System (CHIF IS).

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 2011 onwards (number of surgical operations).

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C30-C39: Lung/chest cancers; C50: Breast cancer; C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer; C69-C72: Eye and brain cancer; C73-C75: Thyroid and other gland cancers; C81-C96: Cancers of the blood and immune system. Click here to learn more in "Population and social statistics" > "Health" > "Operations, procedures and treatments".

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access in "Population and social statistics" > "Health" > "Operations, procedures and treatments". Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

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