Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—patient identifier, identifier N(9)
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
|---|---|
| Short name: | Patient identification number |
| Synonymous names: | Patient identifier; Patient ID; PIN |
| METEOR identifier: | 601236 |
| Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
| Definition: | A unique numeric identifier for the patient or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) consumer for whom the PBS benefit is being claimed. |
| Data Element Concept: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—patient identifier |
| Value Domain: | Identifier N(9) |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Identifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | N(9) | |
| Maximum character length: | 9 | |