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, including prostatectomy and mastectomy; Type of patient; Year; Hospital day cases; Type of diagnose; Age; Gender.

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

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: National and regional level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

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

Cancer Areas of Interest: Not specified as cancer.

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

Contact information: Information [4].