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 Major and medium surgeries per day (Series 1999-2007 - No.) in health establishments
Characteristic Description
Name Major and medium surgeries per day (Series 1999-2007 - No.) in health establishments by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Statistics on health establishments
First available period 1999
Last available period 2008
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT:  Health care unit provider or a set of health care unit providers, with technical direction, management and specific health care purpose accommodations. It may or may not provide in-patient care.
  • SURGICAL INTERVENTION:  One or more surgical acts with the same therapeutical and/or diagnostical purpose performed by one or more surgeons in an operating room, during the same session, under general, loco-regional or local anaesthesia, with or without an anaesthetist.
  • LOCAL UNIT:  An enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place. At or from this place economic activity is carried out for which ' save for certain exceptions ' one or more persons work (even if only part-time) for one and the same enterprise.
Formule (Number of major and medium surgeries realized in hospitals and official clinics during the year)/ (Number of days in the year)
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Health establishments = Official clinics + Hospitals
Last update date 31/05/2012


information presented in 31/10/2025