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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical interventions (1). By dependence and capacity of centre Catalonia Total
Number of operative beds (2)
< 51 51-100 101-200 201-400 401-800 >800 Total
2009 34,122 24,310 123,510 90,965 64,828 56,116 393,851
2008 33,810 26,209 120,021 85,484 69,615 56,380 391,519
2007 37,022 26,075 117,246 105,517 65,928 55,423 407,211
2006 33,961 26,001 109,815 114,599 55,678 54,716 394,770
2005 29,585 25,097 114,363 114,445 91,835 22,057 397,382
2004 29,548 27,348 116,261 102,270 59,385 58,042 392,854
2003 30,059 29,880 132,751 99,062 100,485 22,685 414,922
2002 26,128 39,964 116,906 94,027 58,506 47,442 382,973
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Operative beds.

Last update: November 21, 2011.

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 "..".