Explanations on these surveys are presented in the introduction to Chapter 12 Labour and Wages. Admissions to hospitalization include also interdepartmental or interinstitutional transfers. As of 1988 the ward has been included in chronic diseases. General intensive care includes also respiratory intensive care. Pediatrics includes also pediatric intensive care.
General surgery includes also oral surgery and cardiovascular surgery.
Nursing wards in homes for the aged and in Qibbuzim are also included in this category. The number of days during the year under review in which beds were occupied, including days of stay of patients who have not yet been discharged. Hospitalized mental patients a patient who is hospitalized for 24 hours a day in a mental institution or a patient who is on a short vacation whose bed is held during this leave. The reports are transmitted from the departments of Medical Information and Registration, from Pathology Institutes and Oncology Institutes in hospitals and from private pathology labs. Additional information is obtained using the Deceased File of the Ministry of the Interior.