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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 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 45,851 5,344 2,757 4,738 58,690
Doctors 14,180 1,513 771 1,488 17,952
Pharmacists 285 41 19 26 371
Other high qualified 558 50 94 36 738
Nurses 16,678 1,945 1,065 1,667 21,355
Health specialists 2,103 246 103 178 2,630
Clinical auxiliaries 12,047 1,549 705 1,343 15,644
Doctors by services 14,180 1,513 771 1,488 17,952
Medicine 4,345 453 294 478 5,570
Surgery 3,724 408 156 435 4,723
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,064 126 53 108 1,351
Paediatrics 791 115 45 79 1,030
Psychiatry 389 5 31 6 431
Central services 2,505 211 116 319 3,151
On call 1,362 195 76 63 1,696
MIR (2) 2,395 85 70 158 2,708
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Internal and resident doctor.

Last update: July 19, 2011.

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 "..".