HL7 v2 parser Glossary

DSC - Continuation Pointer (HL7 v2.7.1)

Versions: v2.3 v2.3.1 v2.4 v2.5.1 v2.6 v2.7.1

The DSC segment (Continuation Pointer) has 2 fields in HL7 v2.7.1. Fields are addressed as DSC-n; composite fields break into components DSC-n.m. Paste a message into the parser to see every field annotated with this table.

#NameTypeLenOptRepeatsTable
1Continuation PointerSTOptionalNo
2Continuation StyleID1OptionalNo0398