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Hospital beds by function of healthcare

<p>This dataset provides data on the number of <strong>total hospitals beds by function of healthcare</strong> and by <strong>type of care</strong> (<em>ie.</em> somatic or psychiatric care).</p>

<p>Total hospital beds are all hospital (HP.1) beds which are regularly maintained and staffed and immediately available for the care of admitted patients. They are the sum of the following categories:</p>

<li><strong>Curative care (acute care) beds in hospitals</strong></li> <li><strong>Rehabilitative care beds in hospitals</strong></li> <li><strong>Long-term care beds in hospitals</strong></li> <li>All <strong>other beds in hospitals</strong> not elsewhere classified</li>

<p>Bed numbers according to these functional categories are also broken down between:</p>

<li><strong>Somatic care beds</strong> in hospitals</strong></li> <li><strong>Psychiatric care beds</strong> in hospitals</strong></li>

<p />Please refer to the <a target="_blank" href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=261f59d6-0bbe-4c86-ae5c-0dccd5f59f3e">Sources and Methods</a> for detailed country-specific information.</p>