CTD segment

The CTD segment may identify any contact personnel associated with a patient referral message and its related transactions. The CTD segment will be paired with a PRD segment. The PRD segment contains data specifically focused on provider information in a referral. While it is important in an inter-enterprise transaction to transmit specific information regarding the providers involved (referring and referred-to), it may also be important to identify the contact personnel associated with the given provider. For example, a provider receiving a referral may need to know the office manager or the billing person at the institution of

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Count the pipes to find a field, and count the empty ones too: an empty field still holds its place. Leave out the separator before CTD-2 and its value arrives as CTD-1, so the receiver stores Contact Name as Contact Role.

This page carries the CTD field table as published and nothing beyond it. The field notes, vendor behaviour, FHIR mapping and parsing guidance that thePID page has are still to be written for CTD.

Every field

SEQ LEN DT OPT RP/# TBL# ITEM# Element name Cardinality

CTD-1 250 CE R Y 0131 00196 Contact Role 1..*

CTD-1 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
CE.1	20	ST	O		Identifier
CE.2	199	ST	O		Text
CE.3	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Coding System
CE.4	20	ST	O		Alternate Identifier
CE.5	199	ST	O		Alternate Text
CE.6	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Alternate Coding System

CTD-2 250 XPN O Y 01165 Contact Name 0..*

CTD-2 is a XPN, which holds 14 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XPN.1	194	FN	O		Family Name
XPN.2	30	ST	O		Given Name
XPN.3	30	ST	O		Second and Further Given Names or Initials Thereof
XPN.4	20	ST	O		Suffix (e.g., JR or III)
XPN.5	20	ST	O		Prefix (e.g., DR)
XPN.6	6	IS	B	0360	Degree (e.g., MD)
XPN.7	1	ID	O	0200	Name Type Code
XPN.8	1	ID	O	0465	Name Representation Code
XPN.9	483	CE	O	0448	Name Context
XPN.10	53	DR	B		Name Validity Range
XPN.11	1	ID	O	0444	Name Assembly Order
XPN.12	26	TS	O		Effective Date
XPN.13	26	TS	O		Expiration Date
XPN.14	199	ST	O		Professional Suffix

CTD-3 250 XAD O Y 01166 Contact Address 0..*

CTD-3 is a XAD, which holds 14 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XAD.1	184	SAD	O		Street Address
XAD.2	120	ST	O		Other Designation
XAD.3	50	ST	O		City
XAD.4	50	ST	O		State or Province
XAD.5	12	ST	O		Zip or Postal Code
XAD.6	3	ID	O	0399	Country
XAD.7	3	ID	O	0190	Address Type
XAD.8	50	ST	O		Other Geographic Designation
XAD.9	20	IS	O	0289	County/Parish Code
XAD.10	20	IS	O	0288	Census Tract
XAD.11	1	ID	O	0465	Address Representation Code
XAD.12	53	DR	B		Address Validity Range
XAD.13	26	TS	O		Effective Date
XAD.14	26	TS	O		Expiration Date

CTD-4 60 PL O 01167 Contact Location 0..1

CTD-4 is a PL, which holds 11 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
PL.1	20	IS	O	0302	Point of Care
PL.2	20	IS	O	0303	Room
PL.3	20	IS	O	0304	Bed
PL.4	227	HD	O		Facility
PL.5	20	IS	O	0306	Location Status
PL.6	20	IS	C	0305	Person Location Type
PL.7	20	IS	O	0307	Building
PL.8	20	IS	O	0308	Floor
PL.9	199	ST	O		Location Description
PL.10	427	EI	O		Comprehensive Location Identifier
PL.11	227	HD	O		Assigning Authority for Location

CTD-5 250 XTN O Y 01168 Contact Communication Information 0..*

CTD-5 is a XTN, which holds 12 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XTN.1	199	ST	B		Telephone Number
XTN.2	3	ID	O	0201	Telecommunication Use Code
XTN.3	8	ID	O	0202	Telecommunication Equipment Type
XTN.4	199	ST	O		Email Address
XTN.5	3	NM	O		Country Code
XTN.6	5	NM	O		Area/City Code
XTN.7	9	NM	O		Local Number
XTN.8	5	NM	O		Extension
XTN.9	199	ST	O		Any Text
XTN.10	4	ST	O		Extension Prefix
XTN.11	6	ST	O		Speed Dial Code
XTN.12	199	ST	C		Unformatted Telephone number

CTD-6 250 CE O 0185 00684 Preferred Method of Contact 0..1

CTD-6 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
CE.1	20	ST	O		Identifier
CE.2	199	ST	O		Text
CE.3	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Coding System
CE.4	20	ST	O		Alternate Identifier
CE.5	199	ST	O		Alternate Text
CE.6	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Alternate Coding System

CTD-7 100 PLN O Y 01171 Contact Identifiers 0..*

CTD-7 is a PLN, which holds 4 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
PLN.1	20	ST	R		ID Number
PLN.2	8	IS	R	0338	Type of ID Number
PLN.3	62	ST	O		State/other Qualifying Information
PLN.4	8	DT	O		Expiration Date

Message types carrying CTD

CTD appears in 20 message structures, belonging to 19 message types.

CTD segment

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Message types carrying CTD