Allied health clinical support activity—provider identifier, X[X(29)]
Data Element Attributes
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 |
| Registration status: |
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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 | |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health, Standard 12/12/2018 |