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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. 2014
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 644,399 39,692 5,322 11,845 227,684 1,060 930,002
Recovered 558,006 24,047 4,498 8,615 221,460 941 817,567
Transfer 47,214 4,835 473 1,433 2,037 88 56,080
Deaths 23,446 8,044 62 982 1,982 11 34,527
Others 15,733 2,766 289 815 2,205 20 21,828
Stays 4,064,653 2,139,938 569,590 957,686 758,604 94,314 8,584,785
Income 650,043 40,313 5,477 12,249 235,953 1,094 945,129
Urgent 384,018 1,387 1,266 4,312 60,835 290 452,108
Scheduled 266,025 38,926 4,211 7,937 175,118 804 493,021
Casualties 3,519,476 72,535 3,500 15,683 930,618 649 4,542,461
Discharges 3,103,554 70,652 2,908 11,231 868,919 323 4,057,587
Income 345,250 467 440 3,880 58,414 268 408,719
Transfer 66,713 1,412 152 572 3,219 58 72,126
Deaths 3,959 4 0 0 66 0 4,029
Visits 11,313,221 212,348 22,393 286,379 2,366,512 27,854 14,228,707
Hospital 10,990,743 212,348 8,904 232,914 2,238,234 27,854 13,710,997
Outpatient centers 322,478 0 13,489 53,465 128,278 0 517,710
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 1,013,233 297,961 47,598 96,452 45,448 41,714 1,542,406
Medical 875,083 0 0 0 42,629 0 917,712
Psychiatrics 70,206 3,007 42,411 46,406 2,819 41,714 206,563
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 67,944 294,954 5,187 50,046 0 0 418,131
Home nursing 125,331 12,298 0 7,938 5,000 0 150,567
UMA 1,439,799.5 79,018.8 10,400.0 28,951.1 417,958.6 5,615.0 1,981,743.0
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: November 29, 2016.

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 "..".