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Hospital beds. By type. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Hospital beds. By type. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Acute admission beds Sociosanitary beds Psychiatric beds Incubators Totalbeds Beds per 1,000 inh. Acute beds per 1,000 inh.
2010 18,181 11,271 4,907 412 34,771 4.69 2.45
2009 17,906 11,439 4,777 433 34,555 4.68 2.43
2008 17,851 11,207 4,704 430 34,192 4.69 2.45
2007 17,984 10,708 4,627 424 33,743 4.71 2.51
2006 17,962 10,660 4,570 405 33,597 4.79 2.56
2005 18,043 10,150 4,670 406 33,269 4.84 2.62
2004 17,910 9,164 4,665 400 32,139 4.79 2.67
2003 17,881 8,659 4,542 397 31,479 4.80 2.73
2002 18,022 8,307 4,476 399 31,204 4.87 2.81
2001 18,481 7,962 4,423 399 31,265 5.03 2.97
Source:
2001-2002: Departament de Sanitat i Seguretat Social. Direcció General de Recursos Sanitaris.
2003-2010: Ministry of Health.
Note: The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.

Last update: July 19, 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.
Care of acute patients hospital bed
Bed in a general or specialised hospital, such a surgical, maternity, paediatric and other specificities dedicated to nephrology, ophthalmologic, rheumatology, etc. Does not include beds in psychiatric hospitals or those for chronic or long stay patients.
Socio-sanitary care hospital bed
Residential bed that replaces one at home, used by people aged over 60 years or collectives of a younger age that are not the objects of any specific regulation but that present, in addition to social problems, non acute health problems, pathologies that require preventive treatment, permanent rehabilitation or continuous pharmacological or medical control.

Methodological aspects

For the data on hospital equipment there are two sources, both from the Department of Health. First, there is the Register of Health Centres, Services and Establishments, which basically provides information related to the location in the territory of centres that have received the corresponding administrative authorisation (health and county map). A second source of data are the Statistics on Health Establishment with Internment Schemes (EESRI), which provide annual information on the structure, resources, care and economies of hospital centres located in Catalonia. The EESRI statistics have been generated since 1980 by the Department of Health and are coordinated on a state level in association with the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

Recently, Law 23/2010, of July 22, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas with the incorporation of the Penedès region. This new territorial area includes the counties of Alt Penedès, l'Anoia, el Baix Penedès and el Garraf. In consequence, the territorial boundaries of the area of Metropolità, Comarques centrals and Camp de Tarragona are modified, and their data is therefore not directly comparable with previous years.

Data on December 31.

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 "..".