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4.4.1.186 Value Set http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/gender-identity

Patient Administration Work Group Maturity Level: 0Informative Use Context: Any

This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.

Summary

Defining URL:http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/gender-identity
Version:4.5.0
Name:GenderIdentity
Title:Gender identity
Definition:

This example value set defines a set of codes that can be used to indicate a patient's gender identity.

Committee:Patient Administration Work Group
OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.972 (for OID based terminology systems)
Copyright:

This resource includes content from SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) which is copyright of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). Implementers of these specifications must have the appropriate SNOMED CT Affiliate license - for more information contact http://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/get-snomed-ct or info@snomed.org

Source ResourceXML / JSON

This value set is used in the following places:

4.4.1.186.1 Content Logical Definition

  • Include these codes as defined in http://hl7.org/fhir/gender-identity
    CodeDisplay
    malemalethe patient identifies as male
    femalefemalethe patient identifies as female
    non-binarynon-binarythe patient identifies with neither/both female and male
    transgender-maletransgender malethe patient identifies as transgender female-to-male
    transgender-femaletransgender femalethe patient identifies as transgender male-to-female
    otherotherother gender identity
    non-disclosedoes not wish to disclosethe patient does not wish to disclose his gender identity

 

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SourceThe source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
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