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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical interventions (1). By dependence and capacity of centre Catalonia. 2008
Number of operative beds (2)
< 51 51-100 101-200 201-400 401-800 >800 Total
Social Security 0 0 8,931 8,990 23,468 47,504 88,893
Municipal 3,240 0 9,440 5,991 5,835 0 24,506
Local councils 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other public bodies 0 1,944 4,655 15,170 4,290 8,876 34,935
Red Cross 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Foundations 5,745 6,517 38,587 11,319 24,340 0 86,508
Mutual Benefit Socs. 6,603 4,512 3,390 0 11,682 0 26,187
Church 1,369 2,430 10,960 8,454 0 0 23,213
Other private bodies 16,853 10,806 44,058 35,560 0 0 107,277
Total 33,810 26,209 120,021 85,484 69,615 56,380 391,519
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Operative beds.

Last update: July 19, 2010.

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 "..".