Medical practitioner—hours worked (in direct patient care), total NNN
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Hours worked by medical practitioner in direct patient care |
| METEOR identifier: | 270137 |
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| Definition: | The number of hours worked in a week by a medical practitioner on service provision to patients including direct contact with patients, providing care, instructions and counselling, and providing other related services such as writing referrals, prescriptions and phone calls. |
| Context: | Health labour force |
| Data Element Concept: | Medical practitioner—hours worked |
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Representational attributes | |||||
| Representation class: | Total | ||||
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| Data type: | String | ||||
| Format: | NNN | ||||
| Maximum character length: | 3 | ||||
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| Unit of measure: | Hour (h) | ||||
Collection and usage attributes | |||||
| Guide for use: | Total hours expressed as 000, 001 etc. | ||||
Data element attributes | |||||
Collection and usage attributes | |||||
| Guide for use: | This metadata item relates to each position (job) held by a medical practitioner, not the aggregate of hours worked for all jobs. | ||||
| Collection methods: | There are inherent problems in asking for information on number of hours usually worked per week in direct patient care, for example, reaching a satisfactory definition and communicating this definition to the respondents in a self-administered survey. Whether hours worked in direct patient care are collected for main job only, or main job and one or more additional jobs, it is important that a total for all jobs is included. | ||||
| Comments: | It is often argued that health professionals contribute a considerable amount of time to voluntary professional work and that this component needs to be identified. This should be considered as an additional item, and kept segregated from data on paid hours worked. | ||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||
| Submitting organisation: | National Health Labour Force Data Working Group | ||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes  Hours worked by medical practitioner in direct patient care, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.7 KB) No registration statusHas been superseded by Registered health professional—hours worked in clinical role, total hours NNN
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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