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Hospital health professionals. By categories and doctors by services. Provinces

Hospital health professionals (1). By categories and doctors by services. Provinces 2003
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 39,621 4,583 2,404 3,851 50,459
Doctors 12,187 1,340 668 1,197 15,392
Pharmacists 241 38 18 21 318
Other high qualified 412 64 58 33 567
Nurses 14,637 1,589 917 1,347 18,490
Health specialists 1,719 208 82 148 2,157
Clinical auxiliaries 10,425 1,344 661 1,105 13,535
Doctors by services 12,187 1,340 668 1,197 15,392
Medicine 3,689 415 236 363 4,703
Surgery 3,006 367 207 356 3,936
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,087 118 57 92 1,354
Paediatrics 664 98 35 68 865
Psychiatry 301 5 27 2 335
Central services 2,166 165 57 225 2,613
On call 1,274 172 49 91 1,586
MIR (2) 2,078 73 55 159 2,365
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Internal and resident doctor.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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.

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 "..".