Database: Cancer Procedures (Lithuania)

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

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Higienos Intitutas.

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; Type of diagnose; diagnosis, devices, age; sex. Click here to learn more.

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: Not specified as cancer.

Data access: publicly available [1]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [2].

Contact information: Information [3].