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: 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 surgical 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; Type of diagnose; 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.

Contact information: Click here to access.