00118
Primary Language
2001-03-01
Components: <identifier (ST)> ^ <text (ST)> ^ <name of coding system (IS)> ^ <alternate identifier (ST)> ^ <alternate text (ST)> ^ <name of alternate coding system (IS)>
Definition: This field contains the patient's primary language. HL7 recommends using ISO table 639 as the suggested values in User-defined Table 0296 - Primary Language.
Length≤250
0296Primary language
6 components
| 1 | O | identifier (ST) | ||
| 2 | O | - | text | |
| 3 | O | - | name of coding system | |
| 4 | O | - | alternate identifier (ST) | |
| 5 | O | - | alternate text | |
| 6 | O | - | name of alternate coding system |