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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2014
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 715,438 258,775 974,213
With hospitalisation 235,183 133,603 368,786
Programmed 163,466 119,847 283,313
Emergency 71,717 13,756 85,473
Major outpatient surgery (1) 215,364 75,309 290,673
Programmed 213,795 74,400 288,195
Emergency 1,569 909 2,478
Other surgery without admission 264,891 49,863 314,754
Programmed 260,834 48,977 309,811
Emergency 4,057 886 4,943
Outpatient surgery (%) 47.8 36.0 44.1
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 48,915 22,177 71,092
Vaginal 38,001 13,735 51,736
Caesarean 10,914 8,442 19,356
Births 53,832 24,036 77,868
Infants >= 2.500 g 49,769 22,637 72,406
Infants < 2.500 g 4,063 1,399 5,462
Deaths 371 55 426
Perinatal 282 45 327
Premature infants 89 10 99
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: November 29, 2016.

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 "..".