Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Hospital identifier |
Synonymous names: | Hospital ID; Hospital provider number |
METEOR identifier: | 601166 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | A logical combination of valid numeric and alphabetic characters that uniquely identify a hospital. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Hospital—hospital identifier |
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METEOR identifier: | 404245 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | A unique identifier for a hospital. |
Object class: | Hospital |
Property: | Hospital identifier |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Identifier N[NNNNNN]A |
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METEOR identifier: | 601162 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | A logical combination of valid numeric and alphabetic characters that identify an entity. |
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Representation class: | Identifier | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | N[NNNNNN]A | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Steward: | Department of Health and Aged Care |
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Guide for use: | In some applications of this data element, the eighth character of the identifier is an alphabetic check digit. Methods of deriving the check digit are likely to vary according to individual applications. Wherever possible, information describing how the check digit can be derived or validated should be documented in the 'DSS specific information' field, available at the data set specification level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) state/territory data extract 2013-14 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 DSS specific information: Variable name = HSPTL_ID In the context of the PBS, this data element represents the hospital provider number, i.e. a unique identifier allocated by the Department of Human Services upon the Department of Health's request on behalf of a declared hospital. The issuance of a provider number is directly linked to the hospital declaration by the Minister for Health (or the Minister's delegate), in that only a facility that has been declared as a hospital can be issued a hospital provider number. In the context of PBS data, the first digit of this data item is always a zero, and the eighth character is an alphabetic check digit which can be validated according to the routine outlined below. Using the hospital provider number '0926591Y' as an example, the following steps can be used to validate the check digit. Step #1. The first digit of the hospital provider number is a zero and is not used in the check digit calculation so it can be discarded. The remaining digits are individually multiplied by their corresponding digit in the number 584216, with the products of each multiplication summed, as per the table below.
Step #2. The sum of the products (i.e. 110 from the table in Step #1 above) is divided by 11, i.e. 110/11 = 10, with a remainder of zero (0). The remainder is used to derive the check digit from the following list of values:
Step #3. Using the remainder (0) from the division calculation described in Step #2 above, the check digit for the example hospital provider number is 'Y'. In the context of the PBS, the hospital provider number is used to identify the hospital in those cases where a PBS prescription is written in a public hospital and filled in a community pharmacy. Referred to within the PBS system as 'Hospital provider number', 'Hospital identifier' or 'Hospital ID'. |