Average daily census

Count (enumeration) and demographics of hospital inpatients or members of a managed care plan. The census is given in a daily hospital admission and disposition report that shows patients gained and lost in census, changes in status, and numerical strengths of transient patients and boarders.

Average Earning Clause

In disability insurance, a provision that reduced payment to the proportion of policy benefits that the insured’s earnings at the time of disability (or average earnings for two years prior to disability) bear to total disability benefits under all policies, also called the “Relation of Earnings to Insurance Clause.”