Purposes

Knowledge of the morbidity treated in hospitals, according to the final diagnosis.

Institutions that intervene

INE, Health Department of Cataluña, MDEF.

General description (main variables)

Hospital discharges, stays caused, average age. Final diagnosis, sex and age, marital status, reason for admittance, emergency of the admittance, province of residence, province of hospitalisation.

Collective

Discharges taking place in hospitals

Frequency of data collection

Anual, semestral y minoritariamente periodicidad inferior

Breakdown

Provincial

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2009-2012  (in thousands euros)

1,400.71