Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269519 |
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| Definition: | The direct cost of transporting patients excluding salaries and wages of transport staff where payment is made by an establishment. |
| Context: | Health expenditure: Considered to be a significant element of non-salary recurrent expenditure for many establishments within the data set and is thus required for any health expenditure analysis at the national level. |
Establishment—recurrent expenditure (patient transport cost)
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Establishment |
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| Definition: | Institutions, organisations or the community from which health services are provided. The term establishment covers conventional health establishments and also organisations which may provide services in the community. |
| Specialisation of: | Organisation |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Recurrent expenditure |
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| Definition: | Expenditure which does not result in the acquisition or enhancement of an asset. |
| Property group: | Financial characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics: Government Finance Statistics 1998, Cat. No. 5514.0 |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | National minimum data set working parties |
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Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Establishment—recurrent expenditure (patient transport cost) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)]
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