The SGT segment is only used to provide information about the instantiated message structure to the parsing process to indicate that the segment group ends and subsequent segments SHOULD be interpreted accordingly. It does not contain any patient related data. The Segment Group Trailer is required if the segment group header exists.
HL7 Attribute Table - SGT - Segment Group Trailer
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| Seq# | Data Element | Description | Flags | Implement | Cardinality | Length | C.LEN | Vocabulary | Data Type | |
 SGT | ||||||||||
  | 1 | 03394 | Set ID - SGT | SHOULD | [1..1] | SI Sequence ID | ||||
 | 2 | 03395 | Segment Group Name | = Truncation allowed. | MAY | [0..1] | 60 | ST String Data | ||
| Seq# | Data Element | Description | Flags | Implement | Cardinality | Length | C.LEN | Vocabulary | Data Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGT | ||||||||||
| 1 | 03394 | Set ID - SGT | SHALL | [1..1] | SI Sequence ID | ||||
| 2 | 03395 | Segment Group Name | = Truncation allowed. | MAY | [0..1] | 60 | ST String Data | ||
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| Seq# | Data Element | Description | Flags | Implement | Cardinality | Length | C.LEN | Vocabulary | Data Type | Implement | Vocabulary | |
| SGT | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 03394 | Set ID - SGT | SHOULD | [1..1] | SI Sequence ID | SHALL | |||||
| 2 | 03395 | Segment Group Name | = Truncation allowed. | MAY | [0..1] | 60 | ST String Data | MAY | |||
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| Seq# | Data Element | Description | Flags | Optionality | Repetition | Length | C.LEN | Table | Data Type | Optionality | Table | |
| SGT |
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1 | 03394 | Set ID - SGT | O | SI Sequence ID |
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2 | 03395 | Segment Group Name | O | 60# | ST String Data |
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| Seq# | Data Element | Description | Optionality | Repetition | Length | C.LEN | Table | Data Type | |
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| SGT |
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1 | 03394 | Set ID - SGT | R | SI Sequence ID |
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2 | 03395 | Segment Group Name | O | 60# | ST String Data |
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Definition: For the first segment group transmitted, the sequence number SHALL be 1; for the second , it SHALL be 2; and so on.
Definition: This field contains the name of the segment group.
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