HL7 v2.5.1 Specificationsv2.5.1

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NPU segment

The NPU segment allows the updating of census (bed status) data without sending patient-specific data. An example might include changing the status of a bed from “housekeeping” to “unoccupied.” 3.4.8.0 NPU field definitions 3.4.8.1 NPU-1 Bed Location (PL) 00209 Definition: This field contains the bed location that is a valid bed location. 3.4.8.2 NPU-2 Bed Status (IS) 00170

The shape of one line

segmentNPU|NPU-1Bed Location|NPU-2Bed Status

required optional

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 NPU-2 and its value arrives as NPU-1, so the receiver stores Bed Status as Bed Location.

This page carries the NPU 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 NPU.

Every field

SEQLENDTOPTRP/#TBL#ITEM#Element nameCardinality
80PLR00209Bed Location1..1

NPU-1 is a PL, which holds 11 components separated by carets.

SEQLENDTOPTTBL#Component name
PL.120ISO0302Point of Care
PL.220ISO0303Room
PL.320ISO0304Bed
PL.4227HDOFacility
PL.520ISO0306Location Status
PL.620ISC0305Person Location Type
PL.720ISO0307Building
PL.820ISO0308Floor
PL.9199STOLocation Description
PL.10427EIOComprehensive Location Identifier
PL.11227HDOAssigning Authority for Location
NPU-21ISO011600170Bed Status0..1

Message types carrying NPU

NPU appears in 1 message structure, belonging to 1 message type.