Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 269565 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 27/07/2005 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Commonwealth Department of Health , Standard 14/10/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition:![]() | The date of birth of the person. |
Context:![]() | Required for a range of clinical and administrative purposes. Date of birth enables derivation of age for use in demographic analyses, assists in the unique identification of clients if other identifying information is missing or in question, and may be required for the derivation of other metadata items (e.g. the diagnosis related group for admitted patients). |