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Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 041590 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
06-Oct-2011
Superseded
17-Jun-2012
Standard
01-Sep-2011
30-Jun-2012
The type of health professional that provides an occasion of service to a non-admitted patient in an outpatient clinic.
Hospital outpatient clinic services excluding community mental health care (which includes hospital-based mental health ambulatory services). Used for analysis of system utilisation and for funding purposes.
Provider type, short name
Representational Attributes
Numeric
Code
N(8)
8
8
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
20008186NON SPECIALIST, OTHER
20008192ANAESTHETIST
20008193CARDIOLOGIST
20008194SURGEON, CARDIOTHORACIC
20008195HAEMATOLOGIST, CLINICAL
20008196CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGIST
20008197DERMATOLOGIST
20008198RADIOLOGIST
20008199SURGEON, EAR,NOSE & THROAT
20008200EMERGENCY MEDICINE SPECIALIST
20008201ENDOCRINOLOGIST
20008202GASTROENTEROLOGIST
20008203GERIATRICIAN
20008204IMMUNOLOGIST
20008205INFECTIOUS DISEASES PHYSICIAN
20008206INTNSVE CARE/INT MED
20008207SURGEON, ORAL / MAXILLOFACIAL
20008208MEDICINE-GENERAL/INT
20008210NEONATOLOGIST
20008211NEUROLOGIST
20008212SURGEON, NEUROSURGEON
20008213NUCLEAR MEDICINE
20008214OBSTETRICIAN AND GYNAECOLOGIST
20008215ONCOLOGIST, GYNAECOLOGIST
20008216OPHTHALMOLOGIST
20008217SURGEON, ORTHOPAEDIC
20008218PAEDIATRICIAN
20008225SURGEON, PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE
20008226PSYCHIATRIST
20008227PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN
20008228ONCOLOGIST, RADIATION
20008229REHABILITATION MED
20008230NEPHROLOGIST
20008231RESPIRATORY PHYSICIAN
20008232RHEUMATOLOGIST
20008233SURGEON, GENERAL
20008234UROLOGIST
20008235SURGEON, VASCULAR
20008236ALLERGIST
20008237SPECIALIST, CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
20008238IMMUNOLOGIST, CLINICAL
20008239CYTOPATHOLOGIST
20008240INT CARE/ANAESTHETIC
20008241OCCUPATIONAL MED
20008242ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL
20008243PATHOLOGIST, FORENSIC
20008244SPECIALIST,VENEREAL DISEASES
20008245SPECIALIST, OTHER
20008308GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
20008365REG NURSE, OTHER
20008377REG NURSE, CLINICAL
20008391REG NURSE, MANAGER
20008392REG NURSE, CLINICAL CONSULTANT
20008395NURSE PRACTITIONER
20008401NURSE, ENROLLED
20008402NURSE, STUDENT
20008420COUNSELLOR
20008446ATSI LIAISON/HEALTH WORKER
20008471WELFARE OFFICER
20008526AUDIOLOGIST
20008532DIETITIAN
20008536OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
20008537OPTOMETRIST
20008540PHARMACIST
20008542PHYSIOTHERAPIST
20008543PODIATRIST
20008544PSYCHOLOGIST
20008548SOCIAL WORKER
20008549SPEECH THERAPIST
20008551ORTHOPTIST
20008592PSYCHOLOGIST, CLINICAL
20008601PROSTHETIST/ORTHOTIST
20008616TECHNICIAN
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

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Collection and Usage Attributes
The value domain is a modified subset of the Human Resources (HR) Job Codes data set which is part of the Corporate Reference Data System (CRDS) General Reference data set (refer JOBCOD domain for the full set of codes).

The subset includes all HR Job Codes data set Specialist codes. Provider types not listed by Specialist code in the HR Job Codes data set were grouped to one Non-Specialist code in the subset.
Only one valid funding source code may be recorded.
This data element is part of the NAP-DSS pilot data collection.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Relates toData ElementData ElementOutpatient clinic occasion of service-chargeable statusQH 040933 Version 2Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptOccasion of serviceQH 040607 Version 1Retired
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptOutpatient clinicQH 041541 Version 1Current
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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Source and Reference Attributes