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 Beds (No.) of hospitals
Characteristic Description
Name Beds (No.) of hospitals by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001) and Modality; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Hospitals survey
First available period 1999
Last available period 2012
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Modality
Concepts
  • HOSPITAL:  Health establishment with both in and out-patient care, and endowed with diagnostic and therapeutical resources, with the purpose of providing the population with healing and rehabilitation medical assistance. It is also qualified for preventing disease, health care teaching and scientific research.
  • 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).
Definition The number of hospital beds corresponds to the practiced capacity in the reference year, that is, it results from the arithmetic average of the number of hospital beds counted on the last day of each quarter of the reference year.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 15/12/2014


information presented in 22/11/2024