This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v0.4.0: DSTU 2 Draft). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
A category of human sharing heritage
<ExtensionDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="us-core-ethnicity"/> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/us-core-ethnicity"/> <name value="A category of human sharing heritage"/> <publisher value="Fhir Core Team"/> <description value="A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage."/> <status value="draft"/> <date value="2013-12-03"/> <contextType value="resource"/> <context value="Patient"/> <element> <path value="Extension"/> <short value="A category of human sharing heritage"/> <definition value="A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> <type> <code value="CodeableConcept"/> </type> <binding> <name value="Ethnicity"/> <isExtensible value="true"/> <description value="A code classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing a common real or presumed heritage."/> <referenceReference> <reference value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/Ethnicity"/> </referenceReference> </binding> </element> </ExtensionDefinition>
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.