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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 2007
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Health professionals by categories 48,016 5,734 2,973 5,006 61,729
Doctors 14,807 1,637 856 1,541 18,841
Pharmacists 294 44 22 27 387
Other high qualified 699 41 99 49 888
Nurses 17,529 2,088 1,140 1,777 22,534
Health specialists 2,136 253 112 191 2,692
Clinical auxiliaries 12,551 1,671 744 1,421 16,387
Doctors by services 14,807 1,637 856 1,541 18,841
Medicine 4,789 521 327 527 6,164
Surgery 3,824 429 177 434 4,864
Obstetrics and gynaecology 1,062 137 63 108 1,370
Paediatrics 874 109 49 81 1,113
Psychiatry 410 4 29 7 450
Central services 2,404 229 134 315 3,082
On call 1,444 208 77 69 1,798
MIR (2) 2,444 111 117 163 2,835
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.

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 "..".