`PID` - Patient Identification (HL7 v2.6)

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

The PID segment (Patient Identification) has 39 fields in HL7 v2.6. 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 - PID	`SI`	4	Optional	No
2	Patient ID	`CX`	20	Optional	No
3	Patient Identifier List	`CX`	250	Required	Yes
4	Alternate Patient ID - PID	`CX`	20	Optional	Yes
5	Patient Name	`XPN`	250	Required	Yes	0200
6	Mother's Maiden Name	`XPN`	250	Optional	Yes
7	Date/Time of Birth	`DTM`	24	Optional	No
8	Administrative Sex	`IS`	1	Optional	No	0001
9	Patient Alias	`XPN`	250	Optional	Yes
10	Race	`CWE`	705	Optional	Yes	0005
11	Patient Address	`XAD`	250	Optional	Yes
12	County Code	`IS`	4	Optional	No	0289
13	Phone Number - Home	`XTN`	250	Optional	Yes
14	Phone Number - Business	`XTN`	250	Optional	Yes
15	Primary Language	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0296
16	Marital Status	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0002
17	Religion	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0006
18	Patient Account Number	`CX`	250	Optional	No
19	SSN Number - Patient	`ST`	16	Optional	No
20	Driver's License Number - Patient	`DLN`	25	Optional	No
21	Mother's Identifier	`CX`	250	Optional	Yes
22	Ethnic Group	`CWE`	705	Optional	Yes	0189
23	Birth Place	`ST`	250	Optional	No
24	Multiple Birth Indicator	`ID`	1	Optional	No	0136
25	Birth Order	`NM`	2	Optional	No
26	Citizenship	`CWE`	705	Optional	Yes	0171
27	Veterans Military Status	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0172
28	Nationality	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0212
29	Patient Death Date and Time	`DTM`	24	Optional	No
30	Patient Death Indicator	`ID`	1	Optional	No	0136
31	Identity Unknown Indicator	`ID`	1	Optional	No	0136
32	Identity Reliability Code	`IS`	20	Optional	Yes	0445
33	Last Update Date/Time	`DTM`	24	Optional	No
34	Last Update Facility	`HD`	241	Optional	No
35	Species Code	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0446
36	Breed Code	`CWE`	705	Optional	No	0447
37	Strain	`ST`	80	Optional	No
38	Production Class Code	`CWE`	705	Optional	Max 2	0429
39	Tribal Citizenship	`CWE`	705	Optional	Yes	0171

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 v2.6)

Synthetic example

`PID` - Patient Identification (HL7 v2.6)