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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2016
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 756,074 292,285 1,048,359
With hospitalisation 230,576 142,351 372,927
Programmed 160,758 126,126 286,884
Emergency 69,818 16,225 86,043
Major outpatient surgery (1) 230,224 77,590 307,814
Programmed 228,287 76,460 304,747
Emergency 1,937 1,130 3,067
Other surgery without admission 295,274 72,344 367,618
Programmed 290,887 70,974 361,861
Emergency 4,387 1,370 5,757
Outpatient surgery (%) 50.0 35.3 45.2
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 46,920 21,006 67,926
Vaginal 36,461 13,095 49,556
Caesarean 10,459 7,911 18,370
Births 51,582 22,822 74,404
Infants >= 2.500 g 47,708 21,491 69,199
Infants < 2.500 g 3,874 1,331 5,205
Deaths 317 42 359
Perinatal 253 35 288
Premature infants 64 7 71
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: May 16, 2018.

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 "..".