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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2011
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 683,466 216,529 899,995
With hospitalisation 231,530 117,986 349,516
Programmed 164,176 111,033 275,209
Emergency 67,354 6,953 74,307
Major outpatient surgery (1) 199,758 57,092 256,850
Programmed 197,863 54,046 251,909
Emergency 1,895 3,046 4,941
Other surgery without admission 252,178 41,451 293,629
Programmed 248,290 40,618 288,908
Emergency 3,888 833 4,721
Outpatient surgery (%) 46.3 32.6 42.4
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 57,200 24,500 81,700
Vaginal 44,054 15,847 59,901
Caesarean 13,146 8,653 21,799
Births 62,695 26,471 89,166
Infants >= 2.500 g 58,086 25,085 83,171
Infants < 2.500 g 4,609 1,386 5,995
Deaths 490 42 532
Perinatal 384 38 422
Premature infants 106 4 110
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: February 11, 2015.

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 "..".