PCD Technical Framework vol. 2 Errata

PCD Technical Framework Vol. 2 Errata

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No. 1 - Noted by Al Englebert. Entered 2011-06-17.

The following table appears in the current version of Vol. 2. It differs from the HL7 base specification in that the length for NTE-4 is given as 705, which is the general length for CWE fields in HL7 v. 2.6 BUT the corresponding table in the base specification give the length as 250, which is probably a mistake.

In addition, the Technical Framework has field names that are "out of step" with the field attributes fields from NTE-4 on.

This has no operational effect on PCD implementers, since these fields are "X" "Not Implemented", but the erratum will be applied in future TF versions.

Current text

Table B.4-1 NTE - Notes and Comment segment

SEQ	LEN	DT	Usage	Card.	TBL#	ITEM#	Element name
1	4	SI	R	[1..1]		00096	Set ID – NTE
2	8	ID	X	[0..0]		00097	Source of Comment
3	65536	FT	RE	[0..1]		00098	Comment
4	705	CWE	X	[0..0]		01318	Comment Type
5	3220	XCN	X	[0..0]		00661	Entered Date/Time
6	24	DTM	X	[0..0]		01004	Effective Start Date
7	24	DTM	X	[0..0]		02185	Expiration Date

Proposed corrected text

Table B.4-1 NTE - Notes and Comment segment

SEQ	LEN	DT	Usage	Card.	TBL#	ITEM#	Element name
1	4	SI	R	[1..1]		00096	Set ID – NTE
2	8	ID	X	[0..0]		00097	Source of Comment
3	65536	FT	RE	[0..1]		00098	Comment
4	250	CWE	X	[0..0]		01318	Comment Type
5	3220	XCN	X	[0..0]		00661	Entered by
6	24	DTM	X	[0..0]		01004	Entered Date/Time
7	24	DTM	X	[0..0]		02185	Expiration Date

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