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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. 2016
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 672,303 46,625 5,285 11,546 230,182 1,220 967,161
Recovered 565,121 29,097 4,460 7,944 225,640 1,066 833,328
Transfer 60,555 5,397 389 1,922 1,844 72 70,179
Deaths 24,677 8,776 66 1,019 1,795 28 36,361
Others 21,950 3,355 370 661 903 54 27,293
Stays 4,211,753 2,216,507 590,202 887,707 758,820 134,177 8,799,166
Income 674,579 48,251 5,553 11,665 247,359 1,315 988,722
Urgent 410,161 2,968 1,924 4,511 67,975 387 487,926
Scheduled 264,418 45,283 3,629 7,154 179,384 928 500,796
Casualties 3,754,977 76,111 3,322 11,552 1,041,508 648 4,888,118
Discharges 3,301,262 74,398 2,732 8,391 974,917 335 4,362,035
Income 378,002 344 495 3,041 63,071 255 445,208
Transfer 71,977 1,367 95 120 3,439 58 77,056
Deaths 3,736 2 0 0 81 0 3,819
Visits 11,549,915 201,472 15,169 348,471 2,537,401 30,392 14,682,820
Hospital 11,210,935 201,472 2,287 281,540 2,297,623 30,392 14,024,249
Outpatient centers 338,980 0 12,882 66,931 239,778 0 658,571
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 1,146,825 296,915 44,907 97,877 40,687 57,211 1,684,422
Medical 1,005,700 0 0 0 40,586 0 1,046,286
Psychiatrics 72,713 1,039 39,867 49,275 101 57,211 220,206
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 68,412 295,876 5,040 48,602 0 0 417,930
Home nursing 140,557 15,728 0 9,335 6,027 0 171,647
UMA 1,511,503.2 85,514.1 9,918.4 30,238.0 433,874.9 7,248.1 2,078,296.6
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: May 16, 2018.

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 "..".