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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. 2015
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 667,595 44,708 4,867 11,848 226,250 1,135 956,403
Recovered 577,380 26,985 4,218 8,766 211,988 1,018 830,355
Transfer 49,673 5,488 324 1,548 1,987 72 59,092
Deaths 24,344 8,856 68 915 1,991 18 36,192
Others 16,198 3,379 257 619 10,284 27 30,764
Stays 4,124,126 2,141,391 560,555 946,183 752,651 126,113 8,651,019
Income 669,131 46,074 5,004 12,295 229,268 1,249 963,021
Urgent 402,335 1,859 1,235 4,422 63,500 374 473,725
Scheduled 266,796 44,215 3,769 7,873 165,768 875 489,296
Casualties 3,639,100 72,405 3,332 11,247 977,967 653 4,704,704
Discharges 3,196,699 70,786 2,765 8,255 913,947 329 4,192,781
Income 368,290 338 453 2,877 61,135 261 433,354
Transfer 70,159 1,279 114 115 2,831 63 74,561
Deaths 3,952 2 0 0 54 0 4,008
Visits 11,492,133 206,598 26,072 294,017 2,435,185 33,502 14,487,507
Hospital 111,169,910 206,598 12,671 232,425 2,300,844 33,502 13,955,950
Outpatient centers 322,223 0 13,401 61,592 134,341 0 531,557
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 1,076,177 308,135 44,171 101,811 40,701 55,728 1,626,723
Medical 938,205 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 40,575 0 978,780
Psychiatrics 74,109 1,086 38,949 53,413 126 55,728 223,411
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 63,863 307,049 5,222 48,398 0 0 424,532
Home nursing 139,971 12,250 0 8,417 5,843 0 166,481
UMA 1,489,302.4 84,705.9 9,724.1 29,434.0 424,029.7 7,111.5 2,044,307.5
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: October 25, 2017.

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 "..".