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Changes to the Final Standard V.2.3.1

Most of the chapters contain internal information ("properties") saying that it is Version 2.3.2 and chapter 3.

Corrections to the documents due to parsing process

Most of these changes will be done when the documents appear an CD.

Chapter 2

2.8.52.2: Table 0202 ?
2.11.1: WRF,WRQ,WRP: apply style "Msg Table Header Example"
2.13.1: ACK: apply style "Msg Table Header Example"
2.13.2: MCF: apply style "Msg Table Header Example"

Chapter 3

3.2.19: A19: delete blanks
3.3.1: EVN: move index entries to the end of the line
3.3.7: NPU: dto.
3.3.8: MRG: dto.
3.3.10: DB1: dto.

Chapter 4

4.3.1: apply style "Attribute Table ..."
Segment ORC: no ascending number in first column
4.5.1.15: table 0163: apply style "HL7 Table Caption"
4.5.1.25: apply style "HL7 Table Header"
4.8.18: RAR: index entries at the end of line
4.8.19: R0R: dto.
4.8.20: RER: dto.
4.8.21: RGR: dto.
4.11: Figure 4-20: "Other Table Header"

Chapter 5

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Chapter 6

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Chapter 7

7.3.1: no leading blanks
7.3.2: OBX-5: no footnotes within the segment tables
7.18.4: OBX "segment" ==> "attributes"

Chapter 8

8.7.6.3 apply style "HL7 Table Header"
8.4.3 apply style "Attribute Table Header"

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

10.4.3: Table 0048: where is it used?

Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

12.2.11: QRY^PCK: define event PCK

Appendix C

NMQ, NMR, NMD: assigned events?

Corrections due to extraction of table values

Chapter 2

table 0290 (MIME base64 encoding characters): define values in separate columns

Corrections due to internal consistency

assign new descriptions:
GT1-46: 00749 => Contact Person's Telephone Number
GT1-32+IN2-45: 00783 => Employment Stop Date
CM0-2: 01011 => Sponsor Study Identifier

Assign new data element IDs:

CTD-1: Contact Role => 00196

assign new data type and length:

STF-17: 00119 => CE + 80

Assign new length

NK1-7: 00196 => 200
OBR-16: 00226 => 120
OBX-2, OM3-7: 00570: => 2

Corrections to data element description due to typing errors

OBR-3: 00217 (2 times) => Filler Order Number
OBX-4: 00569 (4 times) => Set ID - OBX
OBR-6: 00240 (2 times) => Requested Date/Time
OBR-29: 00261 => Parent
OBR-5: 00239 => Priority
RXE-21: 00330 => Pharmacy/Treatment Supplier's Special Dispensing Instructions
OM6-1: 00586 => Sequence Number - Test/Observation Master File
EQL-2, SPR-2: 00697 => Query/Response Format Code
CTI-1: 01011 => Sponsor Study ID
RXA-21: 01224 => Action Code

Corrections to table descriptions

ch.9.5.1.3: 0191 => Type of referenced data
ch.12: 0003 => Event type

Table 0003:

Is defined in chapter 2 and 12, but some events are declared with different message types: (must be corrected in chapter 2.24.1.9)

PC4: PRQ => QRY
PC9: PGQ => QRY
PCA: PGR => PPV
PCE: PTQ => QRY
PCK: PTU => QRY
PCL: PTV => PPT
QO4: instead of Q04 (Zero instead of "ooooh")

Table 0256

8.7.3.45: 30 minutes post challenge => value 30M

Table 0191 (ch.2.8.36.3 + 9.5.1.3)

image data: IM vs. Image
other application data: AP vs. Application
audio data: AU vs. Audio
machine readable text document: TEXT
structured generalized markup language: SGML

Inconsistent Attribute Tables

Apply the proposed change on the underlined parts:

Missing Table declarations

Missing Table declarations (not in form of a separate table) out of the segment descriptions:

Missing Table declarations (not in form of a separate table) out chapter 2:

Define message structure identifier in order to reduce the amount of work:

Changes to the message definitions. Sometimes in the left column some words are used which are not a legal segment name. For any Z-segment use "Z.." and for any HL7 defined segment use "?":

Message Definitions

Corrections to the message definition

Modifications to the data types:

Wrong indices within the documents:

Last Update : 17 Januar 2000