DSP segment
The DSP segment is used to contain data that has been preformatted by the sender for display. The semantic content of the data is lost; the data is simply treated as lines of text.
The shape of one line
segmentDSP|DSP-1Set ID - DSP|DSP-2Display Level|DSP-3Data Line|DSP-4Logical Break Point|DSP-5Result ID
required optional
DSP-3 and its value arrives as DSP-2, so the receiver stores Data Line as Display Level.This page carries the DSP 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 DSP.
Every field
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSP-1 | 4 | SI | O | 00061 | Set ID - DSP | 0..1 | ||
| DSP-2 | 4 | SI | O | 00062 | Display Level | 0..1 | ||
| DSP-3 | 300 | TX | R | 00063 | Data Line | 1..1 | ||
| DSP-4 | 2 | ST | O | 00064 | Logical Break Point | 0..1 | ||
| DSP-5 | 20 | TX | O | 00065 | Result ID | 0..1 |
Related
Message types carrying DSP
DSP appears in 3 message structures, belonging to 3 message types.