Individual service provider—provider registration sequence number, identifier NNN
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Provider registration sequence number |
| METEOR identifier: | 524037 |
| Registration status: |
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| Definition: | An additional number added to the profession number of an individual service provider to identify different registration records for each practitioner, as represented by a 3-digit numeric identifier. |
| Data Element Concept: | Individual service provider—provider registration sequence number |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Identifier | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | NNN | |
| Maximum character length: | 3 | |
Data element attributes | ||
Collection and usage attributes | ||
| Guide for use: | The registration sequence numbers issued by the registration board are not significant in themselves, that is, the numbers do not represent registration cycles, sequencing or grading. | |
Source and reference attributes | ||
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | |
| Reference documents: | Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia. | |
Relational attributes | ||
| Related metadata references: | See also Individual service provider—profession identifier, X[X(12)]
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