Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—specialty of prescriber, major specialty code NNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 17/12/2015

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Collection and usage attributes

The first 2 characters of the code represent the broad group into which the health professional falls, i.e. either a General Practitioner (GP), Specialist, Allied health professional or Dental practitioner. Characters 3-4 of the code represent the health professional's major field of specialty.

Source and reference attributes

Data element attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes