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Understanding HL7 Messages: HL7 Composites

Each segment of an HL7 message consists of one or more composites (also known as fields). By default, the | (pipe) character is used to separate one composite from another.

A composite can be a primitive data type (such as a character string or a number), or can contain other composites.

If a composite contains other composites, these sub-composites (or sub-fields) are normally separated by ^ characters.