Person—family name prefix, text A[A(29)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Family name prefix |
METEOR identifier: | 520790 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 05/10/2016 |
Definition: | A starting component of a person's family name, as represented by text. It is often an inherited honorific that has become part of the family name over time. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—family name prefix |
Value Domain: | Text A[A(29)] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Text | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | A[A(29)] | |
Maximum character length: | 30 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Where a person has a starting prefix to the family name, identification of that component as a prefix supports improved searching options in information systems. Examples of a family name prefix include:
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Collection methods: | Record alphabetic characters, punctuation (for example, ‘-’) and spaces only. Hyphenated family names are not a part of a name prefix and should be recorded using Person—family name, text X[X(39)]. A name prefix precedes a family name in a display of the full name. Names which include punctuation, such as O’Brien, should not have the ‘O’ separated out as a prefix, but should be treated as a single family name. |
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: | See also Person—family name prefix sequence number, code N[N] Health, Standard 05/10/2016 See also Person—family name, text X[X(39)] Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Health, Standard 05/10/2016 Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Individual name cluster Health, Standard 05/10/2016 |