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ANALYSIS DATE: String of 6 characters without
“DDMMYY”
terminator, where:
“DD” = day of the month, from “01” to “31” ASCII.
“MM” = Month of the year, from “01” to “12” ASCII.
“YY” = Year of the century, from “00” to “99” ASCII.
ANALYSIS TIME: String of 4 characters without
“hhmm”
terminator, where:
“hh” = hour of the day, from “00” to “23” ASCII.
“mm” = Minutes, from “00” to “59” ASCII.
ESR:
ESR value measured on the QC sample, ASCII string without terminator:
from “0” (3 spaces + ‘0’), transmitted in case of an error, to “140” (1 space + “140”). If the result is
greater than 140, the string will be “>140”.
EXAMPLES (see the table):
ESR value String sent Bytes of the string
1
“1”
0x20, 0x20, 0x20, 0x31
100
“100”
0x20, 0x31, 0x30, 0x30
>140
“>140”
0x3E, 0x31, 0x34, 0x30
H-FLAGS/L-FLAGS:
8-bit bitmap of the sample errors represented in HEX-ASCII. The following table
defines the errors:
Bit Error Description
0 Sample High Blood column too high
1 Sample Low Blood column too low
2 Sample Absent Test tube empty
3 Abnormal Error in height acquisition
4 QC PASS The QC ESR measured is within the
acceptability range
5 QC FAIL The QC ESR measured is outside the
acceptability range
6-7 - Reserved
EXAMPLES:
- In case of a Sample High error, bit 0 (least significant) will be set to one and all the
others to zero, therefore the byte of the flags will have a hexadecimal value of 0x01
and its HEX-ASCII representation will be 0x30/0x31.
- In case of a QC Fail error, bit 5 will be set to one and all the others to zero, therefore
the byte of the flags will have a hexadecimal value of 0x20 and its HEX-ASCII
representation will be 0x32/0x30.
Reply from the host computer
Upon receiving the message, the host computer must send an ACK message to indicate that the
message has correctly been received and interpreted, i.e. that all the fields have the correct value and
that the checksum is correct, or a NACK message to indicate that the message contains one or more
errors: inexact checksum, incorrect length of the data field, etc. (see paragraph 7.4.1).