Documentation: A character string that optionally may have a code attached. The text must always be present if a code is present. The code is often a local code.

Superclasses

• CharacterString

Subclasses

• None

Types

• HL7_Data_Type

Template Slots
	Slot Name	Documentation	Type	Cardinality
	charset	For character-based encoding types, this property specifies the character set and character encoding used. The charset shall be identified by an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Charset Registration [] in accordance with RFC 2978 [].	String	0:1
	compression	Indicates whether the raw byte data is compressed, and what compression algorithm was used.	String	0:1
	label	A short human readable string indicating the content of the instancehuman-readable string for the instance	String	0:1
	language	The language of a string or the language used to write the expression in a function.	String	0:1
	members	Element in a set, list, or bag	:THING	0:*
	nullFlavor	If a value is an exceptional value (NULL-value), this specifies in what way and why proper information is missing.	Class	0:1
	type	"type" epresents the fact that every data value implicitly carries information about its own data type. Thus, given a data value one can inquire about its data type	String	0:1
	value	A data value	String	0:1

Own Slots
	Slot Name	Value
	alias	SC
	semantic_properties	CE code;
	:ROLE	Concrete
	:SLOT-CONSTRAINTS

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