Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 336919 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 04/07/2007 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 |
Definition: | The number of groups of patients receiving services. Each group is to be counted once, irrespective of the size of the group or the number of staff providing services. |
Context: | The resources required to provide services to groups of patients/clients are different from those required to provide services to an equivalent number of individuals. Hence services to groups of non-admitted patients or clients should be counted separately from services to individuals. |