Hospital Morbidity Survey

The Hospital morbidity survey is an investigation that is conducted monthly and which has been conducted since 1951.

Its main objective consists of obtaining the structure and development of hospital morbidity, in other words, of the ill persons who were admitted into hospitals. Specifically, it tries to measure morbidity by virtue of the different diagnoses, average stay in hospital by type of diagnosis and the hospitalŽs scope of influence or degree of attraction.