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Hospital care. By type of hospital and type of concert

Hospital activity. By type of concert and by type of hospital Catalonia. 2010
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 700,049 24,920 1,950 13,598 200,304 1,162 941,983
Recovered 626,918 13,345 1,756 10,411 195,124 1,053 848,607
Transfer 35,362 2,795 105 1,141 2,172 52 41,627
Deaths 25,073 5,877 14 791 1,930 15 33,700
Others 12,696 2,903 75 1,255 1,078 42 18,049
Stays 4,653,726 2,127,947 298,799 1,354,829 698,741 70,027 9,204,069
Income 711,408 25,492 2,109 14,487 203,224 1,167 957,887
Urgent 403,197 639 971 7,099 52,629 247 464,782
Scheduled 308,211 24,853 1,138 7,388 150,595 920 493,105
Casualties 3,648,988 23,538 3,368 21,536 737,883 585 4,435,898
Discharges 3,195,664 23,087 2,602 15,011 687,712 291 3,924,367
Income 372,021 373 689 5,741 48,967 247 428,038
Transfer 77,242 78 77 784 1,160 47 79,388
Deaths 4,061 0 0 0 44 0 4,105
Visits 10,973,887 189,165 7,645 310,101 1,799,624 23,245 13,303,667
Hospital 10,814,776 189,165 7,645 233,507 1,799,624 23,245 13,067,962
Outpatient centers 159,111 0 0 76,594 0 0 235,705
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 845,391 232,529 17,372 126,363 39,178 15,397 1,276,230
Medical 669,793 0 0 0 35,587 0 705,380
Psychiatrics 71,291 0 17,372 67,126 3,591 15,397 174,777
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 104,307 232,529 0 59,237 0 0 396,073
Home nursing 98,653 12,209 0 8,637 0 0 119,499
UMA 1,472,411.1 52,203.2 3,888.0 34,324.3 349,437.0 3,204.4 1,915,468.1
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: October 3, 2014.

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.
Average hospital stay
Average number of days that a patient stays in hospital, i.e. the ratio between the total number stays for patients admitted over the year and the number of admissions and releases to and from hospital over the same period of time.
Rotation index
Number of patients that use a hospital bed over the course of a year.
Hospital occupancy rate
Number of occupied beds in relation to the total over a period of one year. Does not include casualty services, those used by the centre's staff, nor those for people accompanying patients.
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.
Type of arrangement
Understood to be the existence or not of an agreement between a public financing body (Catalan Health Service or Health Department) and a hospital centre, in order for the latter to provide hospital care services.
Units of Measure of Activity (UMA)
Basic unit of hospital activity weighted according to the estimated workload of each activity: [((discharges + outpatient surgeries) x 1) + (0.0266 x total visits) + (0.0472 x emergencies) + (0.0796 x other outpatient treatments) + (0.0907 x partial hospitalisation sessions)]. This indicator uses weighting algorithms taken from the UME (standardised units of measure) index.

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 "..".