Identifier—identifier designation, text X[X(19)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Identifier designation |
METEOR identifier: | 612730 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 05/10/2016 |
Definition: | An alphanumeric identifier, allocated by an organisation or individual provider that is used to uniquely identify an entity, as represented by text. |
Data Element Concept: | Identifier—identifier designation |
Value Domain: | Text X[X(19)] |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Text | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | X[X(19)] | |
Maximum character length: | 20 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | The Australian Standard for Person and provider identification in healthcare (AS 4846:2014) outlines the following principles of identifiers in healthcare: Principle A: Identifiers shall be unique to a purpose and often to a person or organisation, although family group identifiers exist and are unique to the family. Principle B: Identifiers shall not be recycled or reused. Principle C: Each person or organisation should have a single active identifier from a given issuer for a specific usage at any given point in time. The combination of 3 identifier data elements—Identifier designation, Identifier—identifier issuer, text X[X(199)] and Identifier—identifier usage, code NNN—uniquely identify an entity for a specific purpose, and is known as a globally unique identifier. |
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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: | Supersedes Identifier—identifier designation, text X[X(19)] Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 See also Identifier—identifier issuer, text X[X(199)] Health!, Standard 05/10/2016 See also Identifier—identifier usage, code NNN Health!, Standard 05/10/2016 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Healthcare provider organisation cluster Health!, Standard 05/10/2016 Identification in healthcare cluster Health!, Standard 05/10/2016 |