Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269520 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
| Definition: | All payments made by an institutional health care establishment to visiting medical officers for medical services provided to hospital (public) patients on an honorary, sessionally paid, or fee for service basis. A visiting medical officer is a medical practitioner appointed by the hospital board to provide medical services for hospital (public) patients on an honorary, sessionally paid, or fee for service basis. This category includes the same Australian Standard Classification of Occupations codes as the salaried medical officers category. |
| Context: | Health expenditure: This is a significant element of expenditure for many hospitals (although not for other establishments) and needed for health financing and health expenditure analysis at the national level. Any analysis of health expenditures at the national level would tend to break down if significant components of expenditure were not available. |
Establishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments)
Data Element Concept Attributes
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 |
| Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics: Government Finance Statistics 1998, Cat. No. 5514.0 |
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