`PID` - Patient Identification (HL7 v2.3)

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

The PID segment (Patient Identification) has 30 fields in HL7 v2.3. Fields are addressed as PID-n; composite fields break into components PID-n.m. Paste a message into the parser to see every field annotated with this table.

#	Name	Type	Len	Opt	Repeats	Table
1	Set ID - Patient ID	`SI`	4	Optional	No
2	Patient ID	`CX`	16	Optional	No
3	Patient ID	`CX`	20	Required	Yes
4	Alternate Patient ID	`CX`	12	Optional	No
5	Patient Name	`XPN`	48	Required	No
6	Mother's Maiden Name	`XPN`	48	Optional	No
7	Date of Birth	`TS`	26	Optional	No
8	Sex	`IS`	1	Optional	No	0001
9	Patient Alias	`XPN`	48	Optional	Yes
10	Race	`IS`	1	Optional	No	0005
11	Patient Address	`XAD`	106	Optional	Yes
12	County Code	`IS`	4	Optional	No
13	Phone Number - Home	`XTN`	40	Optional	Yes
14	Phone Number - Business	`XTN`	40	Optional	Yes
15	Primary Language	`CE`	60	Optional	No
16	Marital Status	`IS`	1	Optional	Yes	0002
17	Religion	`IS`	3	Optional	No	0006
18	Patient Account Number	`CX`	20	Optional	No
19	SSN Number - Patient	`ST`	16	Optional	No
20	Driver's License Number	`DLN`	25	Optional	No
21	Mother's Identifier	`CX`	20	Optional	No
22	Ethnic Group	`IS`	1	Optional	No	0189
23	Birth Place	`ST`	60	Optional	No
24	Multiple Birth Indicator	`ID`	2	Optional	No	0136
25	Birth Order	`NM`	2	Optional	No
26	Citizenship	`IS`	4	Optional	No	0171
27	Veterans Military Status	`CE`	60	Optional	No
28	Nationality Code	`CE`	80	Optional	No
29	Patient Death Date and Time	`TS`	26	Optional	No
30	Patient Death Indicator	`ID`	1	Optional	No	0136

Synthetic example

PID|1||NS0412345^^^NORTHSIDE^MR~67559094511^^^AUSHIC^MC~8003605247640499^^^AUSHIC^NI||CITIZEN^JANE^MARIE^^MS^^L||19840412|F|||12 WATTLE ST^^PARRAMATTA^NSW^2150^AUS^H

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PID - Patient Identification (HL7 v2.3)

Synthetic example

`PID` - Patient Identification (HL7 v2.3)