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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical interventions (1). By dependence and capacity of centre Catalonia. 2006
Number of operative beds (2)
< 51 51-100 101-200 201-400 401-800 >800 Total
Social Security 0 524 5,861 18,858 15,871 46,918 88,032
Municipal 2,967 0 9,699 4,752 5,748 0 23,166
Local councils 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other public bodies 0 1,979 1,915 21,352 0 7,798 33,044
Red Cross 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Foundations 5,706 3,428 38,317 13,048 22,872 0 83,371
Mutual Benefit Socs. 8,092 4,945 3,395 0 11,187 0 27,619
Church 1,276 2,029 16,765 8,425 0 0 28,495
Other private bodies 15,920 13,096 33,863 48,164 0 0 111,043
Total 33,961 26,001 109,815 114,599 55,678 54,716 394,770
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Operative beds.

Last update: July 15, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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.

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 "..".