SUMMARY Aim of the study. To evaluate the information on admissions due to injuries, accidents and poisonings to health care institutions in the major health databases. Methods. The information about injuries, accidents and poisonings has been evaluated in the certified registration forms and reports, which are filled in at the health care institutions, emergency services, medico-social expertise commission. Comparison of the records on admissions due to injuries in 2003 of the adults (16 years old and over) in the database of Lithuanian Health Information Centre and in the database of State Sickness Fund „SVEIDRA” was performed. The continuity of the data from inpatient to outpatient health care institutions was analyzed. The more detailed analysis was carried out analyzing two largest groups of traumas: head injuries (S00-S09) and arm and shoulder injuries (S40-S69) in the database of State Sickness Fund „SVEIDRA“. Morbidity rates per 1000 population were calculated. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS 11.00 for Windows. The associations between the variables were measured using the Chi-squared and the Student test. The results were considered statistically significant, when p<0.05. Results. Injuries, accidents and poisonings in most forms of the registration were coded according to the medical consequences, and only in few medical registration forms were coded according to external causes. Some forms used different codes for coding external causes, and some... [to full text]