VAR segment

The variance segment contains the data necessary to describe differences that may have occurred at the time when a healthcare event was documented. 12.4.5.0 VAR - Field Definitions 12.4.5.1 VAR-1 Variance Instance ID (EI) 01212

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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 VAR-2 and its value arrives as VAR-1, so the receiver stores Documented Date/Time as Variance Instance ID.

This page carries the VAR 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 VAR.

Every field

SEQ LEN DT OPT RP/# TBL# ITEM# Element name Cardinality

VAR-1 60 EI R 01212 Variance Instance ID 1..1

VAR-1 is a EI, which holds 4 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
EI.1	199	ST	O		Entity Identifier
EI.2	20	IS	O	0363	Namespace ID
EI.3	199	ST	C		Universal ID
EI.4	6	ID	C	0301	Universal ID Type

VAR-2 26 TS R 01213 Documented Date/Time 1..1

VAR-2 is a TS, which holds 2 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
TS.1	24	DTM	R		Time
TS.2	1	ID	B	0529	Degree of Precision

VAR-3 26 TS O 01214 Stated Variance Date/Time 0..1

VAR-3 is a TS, which holds 2 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
TS.1	24	DTM	R		Time
TS.2	1	ID	B	0529	Degree of Precision

VAR-4 250 XCN O Y 01215 Variance Originator 0..*

VAR-4 is a XCN, which holds 23 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XCN.1	15	ST	O		ID Number
XCN.2	194	FN	O		Family Name
XCN.3	30	ST	O		Given Name
XCN.4	30	ST	O		Second and Further Given Names or Initials Thereof
XCN.5	20	ST	O		Suffix (e.g., JR or III)
XCN.6	20	ST	O		Prefix (e.g., DR)
XCN.7	5	IS	B	0360	Degree (e.g., MD)
XCN.8	4	IS	C	0297	Source Table
XCN.9	227	HD	O	0363	Assigning Authority
XCN.10	1	ID	O	0200	Name Type Code
XCN.11	1	ST	O		Identifier Check Digit
XCN.12	3	ID	C	0061	Check Digit Scheme
XCN.13	5	ID	O	0203	Identifier Type Code
XCN.14	227	HD	O		Assigning Facility
XCN.15	1	ID	O	0465	Name Representation Code
XCN.16	483	CE	O	0448	Name Context
XCN.17	53	DR	B		Name Validity Range
XCN.18	1	ID	O	0444	Name Assembly Order
XCN.19	26	TS	O		Effective Date
XCN.20	26	TS	O		Expiration Date
XCN.21	199	ST	O		Professional Suffix
XCN.22	705	CWE	O		Assigning Jurisdiction
XCN.23	705	CWE	O		Assigning Agency or Department

VAR-5 250 CE O 01216 Variance Classification 0..1

VAR-5 is a CE, which holds 6 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
CE.1	20	ST	O		Identifier
CE.2	199	ST	O		Text
CE.3	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Coding System
CE.4	20	ST	O		Alternate Identifier
CE.5	199	ST	O		Alternate Text
CE.6	20	ID	O	0396	Name of Alternate Coding System

VAR-6 512 ST O Y 01217 Variance Description 0..*

Message types carrying VAR

VAR appears in 8 message structures, belonging to 8 message types.

VAR segment

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Message types carrying VAR