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

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0

Year

2004

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Personal medical appliances(Rs) (B8_q13)
File: Block-8-part-1-treatment-expenses-365-days-members-records

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 5
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-90000

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

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.).