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A category of human sharing heritage
{ "resourceType": "ExtensionDefinition", "id": "us-core-ethnicity", "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/us-core-ethnicity", "name": "A category of human sharing heritage", "publisher": "Fhir Core Team", "description": "A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage.", "status": "draft", "date": "2013-12-03", "contextType": "resource", "context": [ "Patient" ], "element": [ { "path": "Extension", "short": "A category of human sharing heritage", "definition": "A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage.", "min": 0, "max": "1", "type": [ { "code": "CodeableConcept" } ], "binding": { "name": "Ethnicity", "isExtensible": true, "description": "A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage.", "referenceReference": { "reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/Ethnicity" } } } ] }
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.