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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2015
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 743,216 269,838 1,013,054
With hospitalisation 233,922 136,895 370,817
Programmed 164,329 122,840 287,169
Emergency 69,593 14,055 83,648
Major outpatient surgery (1) 227,335 78,846 306,181
Programmed 224,474 75,484 299,958
Emergency 2,861 3,362 6,223
Other surgery without admission 281,959 54,097 336,056
Programmed 277,528 53,141 330,669
Emergency 4,431 956 5,387
Outpatient surgery (%) 49.3 36.5 45.2
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 47,934 21,399 69,333
Vaginal 37,207 13,194 50,401
Caesarean 10,727 8,205 18,932
Births 52,678 23,037 75,715
Infants >= 2.500 g 48,682 21,904 70,856
Infants < 2.500 g 3,996 1,133 5,129
Deaths 320 39 359
Perinatal 260 35 295
Premature infants 60 4 64
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: November 13, 2017.

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 "..".