Causes of death according to digital medical death certificates

[Please pay a very close attention to the section "IMPORTANT NOTES"'] DATA SOURCE: Data from Lithuania's centralised health register "eSveikata" (ESPBI IS): digital medical death certificates (Form E106), which the Centre of Registers daily provides to the State Data Governance Information System (SDG IS) of the State Data Agency. SAMPLE, SCOPE, UPDATE: Persons who have died of any cause and whose death is documented on a digital medical death certificate (Form E106) in the eSveikata system. Only the persons with a valid Lithuanian personal identification number (according to the structure and check digit) on the death certificate are covered here. Deaths occurring between 1 January 2018 and the seventh day before the table update date are presented. The data is updated weekly. TABLE STRUCTURE: The table is aggregated on five attributes: year of death, month of death, age group of the deceased, sex, unrevised main cause of death (ICD-10-AM diagnosis code, shortened to the first 3 symbols). Each row is therefore a unique combination of these five attributes. The last column (number of deaths) is never equal to 0, i.e. if in a specific year, in a specific month, in a specific age and sex group, no person died from a specific cause, this row is simply not included in the table. CAUSES OF DEATH: Unrevised ICD-10-AM code entered by the doctor in the main cause of death section of the medical death certificate. Codes are shortened to first 3 symbols. CONTACTS: State Data Governance team: vdv@stat.gov.lt. IMPORTANT NOTES: [1] These are not official statistics on the causes of death produced by the Institute of Hygiene. In this table, the causes of death are unrevised, i.e. are as entered by the health professional into the medical death certificate. In official statistics, these entries would be revised and recoded in the State Register of Deaths and Causes of Death and the primary cause of death is determined in accordance with the international rules of the World Health Organisation (WHO). For more information on the concepts 'primary cause of death', 'intermediate cause of death' and 'immediate cause of death', see here: https://hi.lt/uploads/pdf/padaliniai/MPR/MML_rekomendacijos.pdf. [2] In rare cases, data can be retrospectively updated (e.g. due to expert examination by the State Forensic Medicine Service). [3] These data do not include perinatal deaths (medical certificates of perinatal death, Form E106-2-1). [4] These data will differ from the more accurate death records kept by the Institute of Hygiene: The Institute of Hygiene additionally collects non-digital (i.e., paper) medical death certificates (they could make up around 1% of total deaths); however, this table includes only digital medical death certificates. [5] These data will slightly differ from the official mortality statistics compiled by the State Data Agency, where only the resident population is included and the actual date of death is not used (the date on which the death was reported is used); however, in this table, the scope may cover deaths of non-Lithuanian citizens or persons who are not permanent residents of Lithuania who died in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, and the actual date of death is used. [6] The data also exclude the deaths of persons who did not have a valid Lithuanian personal identification number on their medical death certificate.