AU Base Implementation Guide
4.2.0-preview - Working Australia flag

This page is part of the Australian Base IG (v4.2.0-preview: QA Preview) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 4.1.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: PBS Item Codes

Official URL: http://pbs.gov.au/code/item Version: 4.2.0-preview
Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 2 Computable Name: PBSItemCodes
Other Identifiers: urn:ietf:rfc:3986#Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)#urn:oid:1.2.36.1.2001.1005.22

Copyright/Legal: Copyright (c) Department of Health, Commonwealth of Australia.

This CodeSystem resource represents the items listed on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) schedule published by the Department of Health. Codes are represented as five or six characters in format (n)nnnna and the display is the PBS prescribing rule preferred term. This is not the canonical publication of this code system nor it is intended to be publication on behalf of the Department of Health. For the complete content of the code system contact the publisher.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

This case-insensitive code system http://pbs.gov.au/code/item defines codes, but no codes are represented here