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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 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 50,451 6,080 3,056 5,394 64,981
Doctors 15,213 1,665 911 1,600 19,389
Pharmacists 324 42 27 30 423
Other high qualified 699 80 95 65 939
Nurses 18,802 2,241 1,150 1,998 24,191
Health specialists 2,369 278 123 222 2,992
Clinical auxiliaries 13,044 1,774 750 1,479 17,047
Doctors by services 15,213 1,665 911 1,600 19,389
Medicine 5,232 514 353 531 6,630
Surgery 4,025 453 190 488 5,156
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,094 130 53 118 1,395
Paediatrics 940 113 53 87 1,193
Psychiatry 467 6 41 7 521
Central services 2,418 242 137 301 3,098
On call 1,037 207 84 68 1,396
MIR (2) 2,820 155 143 192 3,310
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Internal and resident doctor.

Last update: November 21, 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 "..".