Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—patient identifier, identifier N(9)
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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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 | |
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Data type:![]() | String | |
Format:![]() | N(9) | |
Maximum character length:![]() | 9 |
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