Health Care Provider Identifier PCORnet CDM Provider Identifier
General Details:
Name:
Health Care Provider Identifier PCORnet CDM Provider Identifier
Steward:
NCI
Definition:
Persons who provides health care as part of their job responsibilities, or a person or organization who is licensed to supply health care._One or more characters used to identify, name, or characterize the nature, properties, or contents of a thing._Arbitrary identifier for each unique record. Does not need to be persistent across refreshes, and may be created by methods such as sequence or GUID. Provider code is for the provider who is most responsible for this encounter. For encounters with multiple providers choose one so the encounter can be linked to the diagnosis and procedure tables. As with the PATID, the provider code is a pseudoidentifier with a consistent crosswalk to the real identifier.
Registration Status:
Retired
Permissible Values:
Data Type:
Text
Unit of Measure:
Ids:
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Code Name
Code
Code System
Code Description
Designations:
Designation:
Health Care Provider Identifier PCORnet CDM Provider Identifier
Tags:
Designation:
Provider ID Code
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Preferred Question Text
Designations:
Definition:
Persons who provides health care as part of their job responsibilities, or a person or organization who is licensed to supply health care._One or more characters used to identify, name, or characterize the nature, properties, or contents of a thing._Arbitrary identifier for each unique record. Does not need to be persistent across refreshes, and may be created by methods such as sequence or GUID. Provider code is for the provider who is most responsible for this encounter. For encounters with multiple providers choose one so the encounter can be linked to the diagnosis and procedure tables. As with the PATID, the provider code is a pseudoidentifier with a consistent crosswalk to the real identifier.