LAN segment
The LAN segment adds detailed language information to the staff member identified by the STF segment. An LAN segment may optionally follow an STF segment. An LAN segment must always have been preceded by a corresponding STF segment. 15.4.4.0 LAN Field Definitions 15.4.4.1 LAN-1 Set ID - LAN (SI) 01455 Definition: This field contains the number that identifies this transaction. For the first occurrence of the
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LAN-3 and its value arrives as LAN-2, so the receiver stores Language Ability Code as Language Code.This page carries the LAN 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 LAN.
Every field
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality |
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| LAN-1 | 60 | SI | R | 01455 | Set ID – LAN | 1..1 | ||
| 250 | CE | R | 0296 | 01456 | Language Code | 1..1 | ||
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| 250 | CE | O | Y | 0403 | 01457 | Language Ability Code | 0..* | |
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| 250 | CE | O | 0404 | 01458 | Language Proficiency Code | 0..1 | ||
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Related
Message types carrying LAN
LAN appears in 3 message structures, belonging to 3 message types.