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2.8.9 CQ - composite quantity with units

Components: <quantity (NM)> ^ <units (CE)>

In future versions, CQ fields should be avoided because the same data can usually be sent as two separate fields, one with the value and one with the units as a CE data type.

Examples:

|123.7^kg|  kilograms is an ISO unit
|150^lb&&ANSI+| weight in pounds is a customary US unit defined within ANSI+.

2.8.9.1 Quantity (NM)

2.8.9.2 Units (CE)

The units in which the quantity is expressed. Field-by-field, default units may be defined within the specifications. When the observation is measured in the default units, the units need not be transmitted. If the measure is recorded in units different from the default, the measurement units must be transmitted as the second component. If the units are ISO+ units, then units should be recorded as lowercase abbreviations as specified in Chapter 7. If the units are ANSI or local, the units and the source table must be recorded as specified in Chapter 7. But in these cases the component separator should be replaced by the subcomponent delimiter

Subcomponents for units: <identifier (ID)> & <text (ST)> & <name of coding system (ST)> & <alternate identifier (ID)> & <alternate text (ST)> & <name of alternate coding system (ST)>

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