Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004
NSS 60th Round

India, 2004

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IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0

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Personal medical appliances(Rs) (B8_q13)

Data file: Block-8-part-1-treatment-expenses-365-days-members-records

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Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 112

End: 116

Width: 5

Range: 0 - 90000

Format: Numeric

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Interviewer instructions

The amount payable for acquisition of personal medical appliances of durable nature like spectacles / contact lens, intro-ocular lens, hearing aid, trusses, crutches, artificial limb, pacemaker etc. for the purpose of treatment of the patient at the hospital will be recorded here. Note that appliances like thermometer, infra-red lamp, blood-pressure measuring equipment, blood-sugar measuring kit, bed-pan / urinal etc. will not be treated as personal medical appliances. If such items have been purchased for the purpose of treatment and during the stay at hospital, those will be recorded against item 15 (blood, oxygen cylinder, etc.).

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Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004 NSS 60th Round