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Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy

Surgical an Obstetric Activity. By type of subsidy Catalonia. 2010
Public (subsidised) Private (not subsidised) Total
Surgical activities 708,161 210,606 918,767
With hospitalisation 249,167 110,563 359,730
Programmed 182,956 104,480 287,436
Emergency 66,211 6,083 72,294
Major outpatient surgery (1) 211,877 59,722 271,599
Programmed 210,416 59,041 269,457
Emergency 1,461 681 2,142
Other surgery without admission 247,117 40,321 287,438
Programmed 243,793 39,646 283,439
Emergency 3,324 675 3,999
Outpatient surgery (%) 46.0 35.1 43.0
Obstetric activity
Deliveries 59,538 23,653 83,191
Vaginal 46,037 14,908 60,945
Caesarean 13,501 8,745 22,246
Births 64,669 25,577 90,246
Infants >= 2.500 g 60,198 24,201 84,399
Infants < 2.500 g 4,471 1,376 5,847
Deaths 492 33 525
Perinatal 367 28 395
Premature infants 125 5 130
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Cirurgia Major Ambulatòria.

Last update: February 11, 2015.

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.

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 "..".