00017

Country Code

1999-04-14
Definition: This field contains the country of origin for the message. It will be used primarily to specify default elements, such as currency denominations. ISO 3166 provides a list of country codes that may be used[3]. The ISO 3166 table has three separate forms of the country code: HL7 specifies that the 3-character (alphabetic) form be used for the country code.
Length≤2
IDcoded value for HL7 defined tablesPrimitive