Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—patient identifier, identifier N(9)
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Patient identification number |
Synonymous names: | Patient identifier; Patient ID; PIN |
METEOR identifier: | 601236 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health , Standard 17/12/2015 |
Definition: | A unique numeric identifier for the patient or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) consumer for whom the PBS benefit is being claimed. |
Data Element Concept: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—patient identifier |
Value Domain: | Identifier N(9) |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Identifier | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | N(9) | |
Maximum character length: | 9 |
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