Definition
All payments measured in Australian dollars 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, for a financial year.
Components
Data Element (this item)
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Data Element ConceptEstablishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments)
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Object ClassEstablishment
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PropertyRecurrent expenditure
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Value DomainTotal Australian currency N[N(8)]
Representation
This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Total Australian currency N[N(8)] ".Data Type | Currency |
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Format | N[N(8)] |
Maximum character length | 9 |
Comments
Guide for use:
Record as currency up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rounded to nearest whole dollar.
Comments:
Although accepting the need to include visiting medical officer payments, the Resources Working Party decided not to include data on visiting medical officer services (whether hours or number of sessions or number of services provided) due to collection difficulties and the perception that use of visiting medical officers was purely a hospital management issue.