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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2012
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 685,935 232,619 918,554
With hospitalisation 232,890 126,603 359,493
Programmed 165,574 118,728 284,302
Emergency 67,316 7,875 75,191
Major outpatient surgery (1) 206,299 58,604 264,903
Programmed 204,338 55,947 260,285
Emergency 1,961 2,657 4,618
Other surgery without admission 246,746 47,412 294,158
Programmed 243,545 46,474 289,928
Emergency 3,292 938 4,230
Outpatient surgery (%) 47.0 31.6 42.4
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 54,166 23,108 77,274
Vaginal 41,751 14,523 56,274
Caesarean 12,415 8,585 21,000
Births 59,535 25,176 84,711
Infants >= 2.500 g 55,031 23,767 78,798
Infants < 2.500 g 4,504 1,409 5,913
Deaths 431 45 476
Perinatal 360 39 399
Premature infants 71 6 77
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: November 10, 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 "..".