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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. 2013
Public (with concert) Private (non concert)
Acute patients Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute patients Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Hospital discharges 646,668 33,661 5,082 11,382 207,145 991 904,929
Recovered 563,116 18,608 4,440 8,194 201,193 899 796,450
Transfer 43,689 3,808 357 1,229 1,937 54 51,074
Deaths 23,484 7,364 48 919 1,930 10 33,755
Others 16,379 3,881 237 1,040 2,085 28 23,650
Stays 4,071,709 2,088,829 573,414 992,119 722,351 92,609 8,541,031
Income 668 34,507 5,181 11,994 213,794 1,003 934,887
Urgent 394,956 1,496 1,112 5,234 56,011 266 459,075
Scheduled 273,452 33,011 4,069 6,760 157,783 737 475,812
Casualties 3,494,992 71,401 3,244 17,275 852,345 636 4,439,893
Discharges 3,067,924 69,333 2,730 12,949 796,852 315 3,950,103
Income 358,877 542 399 3,668 52,933 256 416,675
Transfer 64,243 1,518 115 658 2,503 65 69,102
Deaths 3,948 8 0 0 57 0 4,013
Visits 11,258,929 214,813 22,925 277,125 210,571 23,981 13,902,844
Hospital 10,955,971 214,813 9,478 220,828 2,055,260 23,981 13,480,331
Outpatient centers 302,958 0 13,447 56,297 49,811 0 422,513
Day hospitalisation (sessions) 984,457 276,685 46,512 102,297 40,398 29,931 1,480,280
Medical 836,560 0 0 0 36,149 0 872,709
Psychiatrics 69,086 0 41,402 51,969 4,249 29,931 196,637
Socio-sanitary-geriatric 78,811 276,685 5,110 50,328 0 0 410,934
Home nursing 111,468 14,367 0 7,694 2,551 0 136,080
UMA 1,434,853.0 70,591.4 10,063.6 28,847.2 378,049.0 4,373.7 1,926,778.1
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: UMA: Activity unit of measure.

Last update: November 10, 2015.

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.

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 "..".