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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2013
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 710,789 258,030 968,819
With hospitalisation 234,615 130,090 364,705
Programmed 165,593 121,837 287,430
Emergency 69,022 8,253 77,275
Major outpatient surgery (1) 213,538 69,080 282,618
Programmed 212,199 66,117 278,316
Emergency 1,339 2,963 4,302
Other surgery without admission 262,636 58,860 321,496
Programmed 258,926 57,978 316,904
Emergency 3,710 882 4,592
Outpatient surgery (%) 47.6 34.7 43.7
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 49,912 21,598 71,510
Vaginal 38,393 13,501 51,894
Caesarean 11,519 8,097 19,616
Births 54,647 23,522 78,169
Infants >= 2.500 g 50,880 22,098 72,978
Infants < 2.500 g 3,767 1,424 5,191
Deaths 368 46 414
Perinatal 295 43 338
Premature infants 73 3 76
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 "..".