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Hospital health professionals. By categories and doctors by services. Provinces

Hospital health professionals (1). By categories and doctors by services. Provinces 2004
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 42,361 4,927 2,568 4,116 53,972
Doctors 13,665 1,468 745 1,276 17,154
Pharmacists 254 39 20 23 336
Other high qualified 418 45 52 36 551
Nurses 15,210 1,679 976 1,441 19,306
Health specialists 1,865 235 84 157 2,341
Clinical auxiliaries 10,949 1,461 691 1,183 14,284
Doctors by services 13,665 1,468 745 1,276 17,154
Medicine 4,099 445 250 411 5,205
Surgery 3,609 391 189 373 4,562
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,131 124 51 94 1,400
Paediatrics 755 100 40 63 958
Psychiatry 330 3 29 2 364
Central services 2,280 191 119 247 2,837
On call 1,461 214 67 86 1,828
MIR (2) 2,149 77 61 172 2,459
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
(1) Excluding psychiatric hospitals.
(2) Internal and resident doctor.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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.

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 "..".