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Hospital care. By type of hospital and type of concert

Hospital activity. By type of concert and by type of hospital Catalonia Hospital discharges
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
2017 672,303 47,881 5,545 12,290 216,339 1,250 956,835
2016 672,303 46,625 5,285 11,546 230,182 1,220 967,161
2015 667,595 44,708 4,867 11,848 226,250 1,135 956,403
2014 644,399 39,692 5,322 11,845 227,684 1,060 930,002
2013 646,668 33,661 5,082 11,382 207,145 991 904,929
2012 673,060 29,105 4,419 11,270 207,561 1,009 926,424
2011 671,844 25,238 4,261 10,433 199,292 1,022 912,090
2010 700,049 24,920 1,950 13,598 200,304 1,162 941,983
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: October 3, 2019.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital centre
Centre that provides a permanent service, including admission, with medical and nursing care, and that provides beds for continuous attention. Hospital centres are classified according to the type of hospital care given: acute admission, socio-sanitary and psychiatric to which they dedicate 80% or more of their operative beds. If a centre provides more than one type of care, without any of them reaching 80%, then they are classed as mixed hospitals.
Average hospital stay
Average number of days that a patient stays in hospital, i.e. the ratio between the total number stays for patients admitted over the year and the number of admissions and releases to and from hospital over the same period of time.
Rotation index
Number of patients that use a hospital bed over the course of a year.
Hospital occupancy rate
Number of occupied beds in relation to the total over a period of one year. Does not include casualty services, those used by the centre's staff, nor those for people accompanying patients.
Hospital bed
Bed that is regularly attended to by medical and nursing staff, located in an area of a hospital centre and that offers ongoing care to the admitted patients. Includes incubators and only operative beds. Excluded from this category are beds for births, for healthy neonates, for anaesthesia and reanimation, for unit observation or casualty services, for external consultancy and for people accompanying patients. They can be classified as two different types: care of acute patients and socio-sanitary care.
Type of arrangement
Understood to be the existence or not of an agreement between a public financing body (Catalan Health Service or Health Department) and a hospital centre, in order for the latter to provide hospital care services.
Units of Measure of Activity (UMA)
Basic unit of hospital activity weighted according to the estimated workload of each activity: [((discharges + outpatient surgeries) x 1) + (0.0266 x total visits) + (0.0472 x emergencies) + (0.0796 x other outpatient treatments) + (0.0907 x partial hospitalisation sessions)]. This indicator uses weighting algorithms taken from the UME (standardised units of measure) index.

Methodological aspects

Statistics on Healthcare Establishments with Internment Schemes (EESRI) was introduced by the Spanish Government's Presidential Order on 18th May 1973 in order to collect information on the structure, facilities and activity of hospital centres. It is a part of both the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Government's official statistics; for this reason, all centres operating in Spain are obliged to comply. From 1980 onwards, it is the Catalan Ministry of Health's responsibility to collect, confirm and analyse the data from authorised centres in Catalonia.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".