Allied health clinical support activity—provider identifier, X[X(29)]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Allied health clinical support activity provider identifier |
| METEOR identifier: | 705607 |
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| Definition: | A unique identifier for each allied health service provider performing the clinical support activity formed through the combination of a jurisdiction or establishment identifier and a professional identification number. |
| Data Element Concept: | Allied health clinical support activity—provider identifier |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Identifier | |
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| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | X[X(29)] | |
| Maximum character length: | 30 | |
Data element attributes | ||
Collection and usage attributes | ||
| Guide for use: | Where states or territories have unique professional staff identifiers this code, or a computed equivalent (to protect provider privacy) should be used. | |
| Comments: | This data element provides a means to a field for a unique identifier for each allied health provider. This will enable data quality checks to be performed on the data. | |
Source and reference attributes | ||
| Submitting organisation: | Allied Health Professions Australia | |
Relational attributes | ||
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