Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—number of authorised medication supplies, total number N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Number of authorised medication supplies |
| METEOR identifier: | 605072 |
| Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
| Definition: | For a given Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription, the total number of times that the prescribed medicinal product is supplied to the patient or PBS consumer. |
| Data Element Concept: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—number of authorised medication supplies |
| Value Domain: | Total number N[N] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Total | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N[N] | |
| Maximum character length: | 2 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Supplementary values: | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This data item should be used in conjunction with the data item Regulation 24 applicable indicator. For 'single supply' prescriptions, i.e. those that specify an original supply only of the prescribed medicinal product with no repeats, this data item should have a value of 1. For repeat prescriptions, this data item should have either:
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) state/territory data extract 2013-14 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |