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Hospital care. By type of hospital and type of concert

Hospital activity. By type of concert and by type of hospital Catalonia. 2017
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 672,303 47,881 5,545 12,290 216,339 1,250 956,835
Recovered 565,121 30,271 4,756 7,982 211,852 1,060 815,086
Transfer 60,555 5,946 370 2,126 1,947 78 66,292
Deaths 24,677 9,185 53 1,264 1,866 83 37,770
Others 21,950 2,479 366 918 674 29 37,687
Stays 4,211,753 2,259,105 615,115 889,901 744,783 144,220 8,906,816
Income 674,579 49,224 5,785 11,914 221,609 1,370 968,152
Urgent 410,161 2,635 1,785 4,691 68,152 390 489,998
Scheduled 264,418 46,589 4,000 7,223 153,457 980 478,154
Casualties 3,754,977 76,980 3,326 12,198 1,064,707 667 4,919,679
Discharges 3,301,262 75,302 2,677 9,183 997,248 340 4,387,879
Income 378,002 426 534 2,852 65,060 265 455,474
Transfer 71,977 1,251 115 163 2,346 62 72,440
Deaths 3,736 1 0 0 53 0 3,886
Visits 11,549,915 194,347 15,329 336,098 2,676,194 23,984 14,825,502
Hospital 11,210,935 194,347 2,353 284,115 2,460,362 23,984 14,239,907
Outpatient centers 338,980 0 12,976 51,983 215,832 0 585,595
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 1,146,825 302,073 39,235 104,933 43,024 27,885 1,722,765
Medical 1,005,700 0 0 0 43,008 0 1,099,586
Psychiatrics 72,713 4,365 34,245 56,406 16 27,885 211,150
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 68,412 297,708 4,990 48,527 0 0 412,029
Home nursing 140,557 14,933 0 9,838 6,268 0 182,670
UMA 1,538,343.6 87,276.2 9,668.4 31,323.4 427,944.5 4,448.6 2,099,004.7
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: October 3, 2019.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital centre
Centre that provides a permanent service, including admission, with medical and nursing care, and that provides beds for continuous attention. Hospital centres are classified according to the type of hospital care given: acute admission, socio-sanitary and psychiatric to which they dedicate 80% or more of their operative beds. If a centre provides more than one type of care, without any of them reaching 80%, then they are classed as mixed hospitals.
Average hospital stay
Average number of days that a patient stays in hospital, i.e. the ratio between the total number stays for patients admitted over the year and the number of admissions and releases to and from hospital over the same period of time.
Rotation index
Number of patients that use a hospital bed over the course of a year.
Hospital occupancy rate
Number of occupied beds in relation to the total over a period of one year. Does not include casualty services, those used by the centre's staff, nor those for people accompanying patients.
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.
Type of arrangement
Understood to be the existence or not of an agreement between a public financing body (Catalan Health Service or Health Department) and a hospital centre, in order for the latter to provide hospital care services.
Units of Measure of Activity (UMA)
Basic unit of hospital activity weighted according to the estimated workload of each activity: [((discharges + outpatient surgeries) x 1) + (0.0266 x total visits) + (0.0472 x emergencies) + (0.0796 x other outpatient treatments) + (0.0907 x partial hospitalisation sessions)]. This indicator uses weighting algorithms taken from the UME (standardised units of measure) index.

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 "..".