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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 2008
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 49,851 5,976 3,020 5,332 64,179
Doctors 15,231 1,683 888 1,593 19,395
Pharmacists 309 46 28 29 412
Other high qualified 750 66 90 60 966
Nurses 18,157 2,185 1,135 1,936 23,413
Health specialists 2,304 270 122 202 2,898
Clinical auxiliaries 13,100 1,726 757 1,512 17,095
Doctors by services 15,231 1,683 888 1,593 19,395
Medicine 5,092 524 343 529 6,488
Surgery 3,928 434 181 450 4,993
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,135 158 58 110 1,461
Paediatrics 882 120 48 92 1,142
Psychiatry 441 6 40 6 493
Central services 2,443 251 135 335 3,164
On call 1,310 190 83 71 1,654
MIR (2) 2,681 142 130 174 3,127
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Internal and resident doctor.

Last update: July 19, 2010.

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 "..".