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.
Components
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Data Element Concept (this item)Establishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments)
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Object ClassEstablishment
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PropertyRecurrent expenditure
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Conceptual DomainNone
Comments
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.
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