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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. 2012
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 673,060 29,105 4,419 11,270 207,561 1,009 926,424
Recovered 590,571 15,765 3,726 7,947 201,062 904 819,975
Transfer 42,102 3,294 391 1,316 2,180 54 49,337
Deaths 25,575 6,898 51 895 2,057 16 35,492
Others 14,812 3,148 251 1,112 2,262 35 21,620
Stays 4,221,981 2,046,650 580,325 1,060,554 716,701 83,564 8,709,775
Income 694,477 28,901 4,886 11,884 211,375 970 952,493
Urgent 403,556 830 1,135 5,119 56,260 265 467,165
Scheduled 290,921 28,071 3,751 6,765 155,115 705 485,328
Casualties 3,472,171 70,885 3,403 16,866 811,932 633 4,375,890
Discharges 3,029,492 68,975 2,882 12,658 757,604 305 3,871,916
Income 367,888 460 400 3,486 52,747 261 425,242
Transfer 70,626 1,442 121 722 1,526 67 74,504
Deaths 4,165 8 0 0 55 0 4,228
Visits 10,947,392 203,850 15,094 278,783 1,902,136 23,824 13,371,079
Hospital 10,652,933 203,850 2,234 219,576 1,902,136 23,824 13,004,553
Outpatient centers 294,459 0 12,860 59,207 0 0 366,526
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 921,894 258,261 41,642 103,878 42,714 25,573 1,393,962
Medical 748,397 0 0 0 38,360 0 786,757
Psychiatrics 82,534 0 36,755 55,167 4,354 25,573 204,383
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 90,963 258,261 4,887 48,711 0 0 402,822
Home nursing 104,921 7,850 0 7,148 0 0 119,919
UMA 1,437,702.9 63,902.4 8,758.1 28,903.4 360,128.3 3,992.1 1,903,387.0
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: October 3, 2014.

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 "..".