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Definition for Value SetOMB Ethnicity Categories
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="omb-ethnicity"/> <meta> <lastUpdated value="2016-12-06T12:22:34.981+11:00"/> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-shareable-definition"/> </meta> <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <h2>OMB Ethnicity Categories</h2> <div> <p>The codes for the ethnicity categories - 'Hispanic or Latino' and 'Non Hispanic or Latino' - as defined by the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards">OMB Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997</a>. </p> </div> <p>This value set includes codes from the following code systems:</p> <ul> <li>Include these codes as defined in http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity <table class="none"> <tr> <td> <b>Code</b> </td> <td> <b>Display</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>2135-2</td> <td>Hispanic or Latino</td> <td/> </tr> <tr> <td>2186-5</td> <td>Non Hispanic or Latino</td> <td/> </tr> </table> </li> </ul> </div> </text> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity"/> <identifier> <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/> <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.0"/> </identifier> <version value="1.8.0"/> <name value="OMB Ethnicity Categories"/> <status value="draft"/> <experimental value="true"/> <publisher value="USRealm Task Force"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="url"/> <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/> </telecom> <telecom> <system value="email"/> <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/> </telecom> </contact> <date value="2016-08-30"/> <description value="The codes for the ethnicity categories - 'Hispanic or Latino' and 'Non Hispanic or Latino' - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards)."/> <compose> <include> <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity"/> <concept> <code value="2135-2"/> <display value="Hispanic or Latino"/> </concept> <concept> <code value="2186-5"/> <display value="Non Hispanic or Latino"/> </concept> </include> </compose> </ValueSet>
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