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According to the Statistics Department on Friday, 764 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania. However, as reported by the BNS to the Registry Center, the electronic health system provided information on 917 deaths from this infectious disease.
“Health professionals in the e-health system have provided data on 917 people whose death certificate indicates the cause of death according to code U07.1 (COVID-19 disease, virus detected),” said Mindaugas Samkus, representative from the Records Center, in a comment posted Friday.
According to him, the National Center for Public Health (NVSC) does not currently take death statistics from the eHealth system.
“Statistics on deaths and their causes are provided today only to the Institute of Hygiene. We do not know where the NVSC obtains the data on deaths from COVID-19,” explained a representative from the Center of Records.
Hygiene Institute: Total number of deaths from COVID-19 may be higher
The Hygiene Institute has informed BNS that it publishes the causes of death after analyzing all the death certificates received during the relevant period. At present, the institution has officially provided information on deaths up to September.
“Next week we will present the October data,” said Rūta Ustinavičienė, head of the Department for Monitoring Death Cases and Their Causes at the Institute of Hygiene.
According to her, after analyzing all the death certificates, the total number of deaths may be even higher than the information entered by doctors in the electronic health system.
“If we see in the death certificate that the doctor did not register the root cause devoured, but registered to intermediate causes, and we see that the person passed away from the entire clinic, according to all the WHO rules, from devoured, then we will encode it as devoured death ”, commented a representative of the Institute of Hygiene.
“Doctors really like to record ‘cardiac arrest’, but you will never see ‘cardiac arrest’ in our statistics, because when a person dies, they always have cardiac arrest.” We need a reason to stop our hearts, ”he added.
For its part, the NVSC states that, in accordance with current procedures, it receives information on deaths from medical institutions, which are delivered with a form.
In our statistics, you will not see a “cardiac arrest”, because when a person dies, his heart always stops. We need a reason to stop our hearts, ”said a spokeswoman for the Institute of Hygiene.
“Following information on the excess deaths that may have been related to COVID-19, the NVSC wrote to the Registry Center requesting information on all COVID-19 deaths recorded in the Collaborative Infrastructure Information System and Electronic Health Services , providing detailed information. “, – BSC commented Justina Petravičienė, representative of NVSC.
The BNS Registry Center acknowledged receipt of this request.
The Statistics Department also announced that it would contact the Records Center later on Friday.
“Currently, the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, in accordance with the established procedure, publishes the data on deaths from COVID-19 collected by the National Center for Public Health, which is sent to doctors by filling in the U07.1 form. The cause of death data collected by the ESPBI (eHealth System) cannot be considered reliable, so it is transmitted to the Hygiene Institute, which organizes the data and publishes information on the cause of death (currently HI publishes monthly information on the cause of death death at 1.5 months). delay).
Statistics Lithuania, as manager of the VDV IS, will request the Records Center to provide the causes of death to the VDV IS. “Having all the data and, together with the Institute of Hygiene and the National Center for Public Health, evaluating its quality and reliability, they will publish the death rates recalculated by COVID-19,” the report reads.
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