Identifier—identifier designation, text X[X(19)]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Identifier designation |
| METEOR identifier: | 612730 |
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| Definition: | An alphanumeric identifier, allocated by an organisation or individual provider that is used to uniquely identify an entity, as represented by text. |
| Data Element Concept: | Identifier—identifier designation |
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Representational attributes | |||
| Representation class: | Text | ||
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| Data type: | String | ||
| Format: | X[X(19)] | ||
| Maximum character length: | 20 | ||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||
| Comments: | The Australian Standard for Person and provider identification in healthcare (AS 4846:2014) outlines the following principles of identifiers in healthcare: Principle A: Identifiers shall be unique to a purpose and often to a person or organisation, although family group identifiers exist and are unique to the family. Principle B: Identifiers shall not be recycled or reused. Principle C: Each person or organisation should have a single active identifier from a given issuer for a specific usage at any given point in time. The combination of 3 identifier data elements—Identifier designation, Identifier—identifier issuer, text X[X(199)] and Identifier—identifier usage, code NNN—uniquely identify an entity for a specific purpose, and is known as a globally unique identifier. | ||
Source and reference attributes | |||
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||
| Reference documents: | Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia. | ||
Relational attributes | |||
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Identifier—identifier designation, text X[X(19)]
See also Identifier—identifier issuer, text X[X(199)]
See also Identifier—identifier usage, code NNN
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