NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka)Tabulations only Geography Sri Lanka (LKA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/2015 - 12/2015 Series or system Sri Lanka Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Return (IMMR) Data type Administrative data: DischargeInpatient Summary The Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Return (IMMR) collects hospital data from each government hospital throughout the country. Data is compiled annually by staff of the Medical Statistics Unit (MSU), a sector of the Ministry of Health. Morbidity and mortality data are collected quarterly from all government hospitals, with the exception of Primary Health Care Units and Maternity Homes, and are classified under ICD-10. Individual patients with repeat visits, hospital transfers, or multiple admissions for the same disease are reflected in the morbidity data as additional cases. Outpatient data are not routinely collected or reported in the IMMR. For 2015, there were 6,311,873 live discharges and 47,808 deaths recorded in government hospitals for the IMMR. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Amoebiasis, Anemia, Animal injuries, Anogenital herpes, Appendicitis, Asthma, Bladder cancer, Brain and nervous system cancers, Breast cancer, Burns, COPD, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Causes of death, Causes of morbidity, Cerebrovascular diseases, Cervix uteri cancer, Chlamydia, Chronic kidney diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Cirrhosis of the liver, Cleft lip and cleft palate, Colon and rectum cancers, Congenital anomalies, Corpus uteri cancer, Dengue, Dental caries, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Digestive diseases, Diphtheria, Encephalitis, Endocrine disorders, Epilepsy, Fever, Fungal skin diseases, Gastritis and duodenitis, Genital prolapse, Glaucoma, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Headache, Hearing loss, Heart failure, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hodgkin lymphoma, Hyperplasia of prostate, Hypertension, ICD-10, Infectious diseases, Influenza, Inguinal and femoral hernia, Injuries, Intestinal infectious diseases, Intestinal nematode infections, Iodine deficiency, Ischemic heart disease, Kidney and other urinary organ cancers, Larynx cancer, Leprosy, Leukemia, Liver cancer, Lower respiratory infections, Lymphatic filariasis, Malaria, Malnutrition, Maternal hemorrhage, Maternal sepsis, Measles, Meningitis, Meningococcal meningitis, Mortality, Mouth cancer, Multiple sclerosis, Mumps, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neurological conditions, Noninfective inflammatory bowel disease, Obstructed labor, Oesophagus cancer, Otitis media, Pancreas cancer, Pancreatitis, Parkinson's disease, Peptic ulcer disease, Poisonings, Polio, Prostate cancer, Rabies, Rheumatic heart disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Rubella, STDs, Scabies, Seizures, Sepsis, Sexual sterilization, Shigellosis, Skin cancers, Stomach cancer, Symptoms, Syphilis, Thalassemias, Thyroid cancer, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Trichomoniasis, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Upper respiratory infections, Urinary diseases, Urolithiasis, Varicella, Whooping cough Citation Contributors Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka) Publisher Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka) Suggested citation Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka). Sri Lanka Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Return 2015. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka). GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021