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Establishment—recurrent expenditure (medical and surgical supplies)

Definition

The cost of all consumables of a medical or surgical nature (excluding drug supplies) but not including expenditure on equipment repairs.

Components

Data Element
Implemented in 1 data element

Comments

Context:

Health expenditure:

As for the metadata item drug supplies, this is a significant element of non-salary expenditure and national-level data on medical and surgical supplies is of considerable interest in its own right to a wide range of persons and organisations.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept 1