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 Surgery rooms (No.) in hospitals
Characteristic Description
Name Surgery rooms (No.) in hospitals by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Hospitals survey
First available period 2002
Last available period 2013
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)
Concepts
  • OPERATING ROOM:  A room, integrated in a surgical specialised set of rooms, equipped for the performance of surgical operations and exams that require general, local or regional anaesthesia and a high level of asepsis.
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 10/07/2015


information presented in 16/7/2024