QAK segment
The QAK segment contains information sent with responses to a query. Although the QAK segment is required in the responses to the enhanced queries (see section 5.10.4), it may appear as an optional segment placed after the (optional) ERR segment in any query response (message) to any original mode query. 5.5.2.0 QAK field definitions 5.5.2.1 QAK-1 Query Tag (ST) 00696 Definition: This field may be valued by the initiating system to identify the query, and may be used to
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required in some cases optional
QAK-2 and its value arrives as QAK-1, so the receiver stores Query Response Status as Query Tag.This page carries the QAK 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 QAK.
Every field
| SEQ | LEN | DT | OPT | RP/# | TBL# | ITEM# | Element name | Cardinality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QAK-1 | 32 | ST | C | 00696 | Query Tag | 0..1 | ||
| QAK-2 | 2 | ID | O | 0208 | 00708 | Query Response Status | 0..1 | |
| 250 | CE | O | 0471 | 01375 | Message Query Name | 0..1 | ||
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| QAK-4 | 10 | NM | O | 01434 | Hit Count | 0..1 | ||
| QAK-5 | 10 | NM | O | 01622 | This payload | 0..1 | ||
| QAK-6 | 10 | NM | O | 01623 | Hits remaining | 0..1 | ||
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Message types carrying QAK
QAK appears in 27 message structures, belonging to 12 message types.