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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia Surgical activities
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
2017 781,317 289,409 1,070,726
2016 756,074 292,285 1,048,359
2015 743,216 269,838 1,013,054
2014 715,438 258,775 974,213
2013 710,789 258,030 968,819
2012 685,935 232,619 918,554
2011 683,466 216,529 899,995
2010 708,161 210,606 918,767
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: October 3, 2019.

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 "..".