Database: Cancer Procedures (Lithuania)

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

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Institute of Hygiene (HI).

Type of information: Number of surgical operations and procedures performed in hospitals; Crude number and number per 100 000 inhabitants by type of surgical procedure - regarding cancer, it includes prostatectomy and mastectomy; Type of patient; Year; Hospital day cases; Type of diagnose; Age; Gender; Hospital days for inpatient cases (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums); Number of discharges (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums); Inpatient average length of stay (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums).

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

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: National level.

Number of Records: Contains information regarding the whole territory of Lithuania.

Date range: 2010 onwards (number of surgical operations) and 2001 onwards (all the other indicators).

Cancer Areas of Interest: Number of surgical operations comprises breast cancer and prostate cancer. The other indicators do not specify the types of cancer comprised.

Data access: Partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].