LCH

Location Characteristic

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2.6Sep2007

2.7Jan2011

2.7.1Jul2012

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The Technical Steward for the LCH segment is Patient Administration.

The LCH segment is used to identify location characteristics which determine which patients will be assigned to the room or bed. It contains the location characteristics of the room or bed identified in the preceding LOC segment. There should be one LCH segment for each attribute.

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		C.Len						Element		v2.6
1	-	-	PL	R	1	-	01305	LCH-1	Primary Key Value - LCH	Length
2	1	-	ID	O	1	0206	00763	LCH-2	Segment Action Code	2
3	-	-	EI	O	1	-	00764	LCH-3	Segment Unique Key	Length
4	-	-	CWE	R	1	0324	01295	LCH-4	Location Characteristic ID	Length
5	-	-	CWE	R	1	0136	01294	LCH-5	Location Characteristic Value - LCH	Length

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