Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 292786 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 04/07/2007 |
Definition: | The number of groups of patients/clients receiving services. Each group is to count once, irrespective of size or the number of staff providing services. |
Context: | The resources required to provide services to groups of patients are different from those required to provide services to an equivalent number of individuals. Hence services to groups of non-admitted patients or outreach clients should be counted separately from services to individuals. |