[Anesthesia practice in Catalan hospitals and other health care facilities].

Background And Objective: The aim of this arm of the ANESCAT study was to characterize anesthesia practice in the various types of health care facilities of Catalonia, Spain, in 2003.

Patients And Method: We analyzed data from the survey according to a) source of a facility's funding: public hospitals financed by the Catalan Public Health Authority (ICS), the network of subsidized hospitals for public use (XHUP), or private hospitals; b) size: facilities without hospital beds, hospitals with fewer than 250 beds, those with 251 to 500, and those with over 500; and c) training accreditation status: whether or not a facility gave medical resident training.

Results: A total of 131 facilities participated (11 under the ICS, 47 from the XHUP, and 73 private hospitals).