Extension: Sex of patient assigned at birth

STU 3 Ballot

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Extension Sex of patient assigned at birth - Detailed Descriptions

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.

Extension
Definition	A code classifying the person's sex assigned at birth as specified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
Control	0..1 This element is affected by the following invariants: ele-1
Comments	The codes required are intended to present birth sex (i.e., the sex recorded on the patient’s birth certificate) and not gender identity or reassigned sex.
Invariants	Defined on this element ele-1: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath: @value\|f:\|h:div) ext-1: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')]))
Extension.id
Definition	unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Extension.extension(extension)
Definition	An Extension
Control	0..0
Type	Extension
Extension.url
Definition	Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.
Control	1..1
Type	uri
Comments	The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension.
Fixed Value	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/us-core-birthsex
Extension.valueCode
Definition	Value of extension - may be a resource or one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility in the spec for list).
Control	1..1
Binding	Code for sex assigned at birth The codes SHALL be taken from USRealm Birth Sex Value Set
Type	code