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 attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—number of authorised medication supplies |
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METEOR identifier: | 605069 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | For a given Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription, the number of times that the prescribed medicinal product is supplied to the patient or PBS consumer. |
Object class: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription |
Property: | Number of authorised medication supplies |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total number N[N] |
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METEOR identifier: | 347205 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Qualified 23/09/2015 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 01/10/2008 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 Indigenous, Standard 08/10/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016 |
Definition: | The total number. |
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 | |
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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 = PRSCRPTN_CNT |