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
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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
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 80 | PL | R | 00209 | Bed Location | 1..1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NPU-2 | 1 | IS | O | 0116 | 00170 | Bed Status | 0..1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Message types carrying NPU
NPU appears in 1 message structure, belonging to 1 message type.