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ValueSet: OMB Ethnicity Categories

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity-category Version: 7.0.0-ballot
Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 3 Computable Name: OmbEthnicityCategories

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The codes for the concepts ‘Unknown’, ‘Asked but no answer’, and the ethnicity categories - ‘Hispanic or Latino’ and ‘Not 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.

References

Logical Definition (CLD)

This value set includes codes based on the following rules:

 

Expansion

This value set contains 4 concepts

CodeSystemDisplayDefinition
  2135-2urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238Hispanic or Latino
  2186-5urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238Not Hispanic or Latino
  ASKUhttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavorasked but unknown

Information was sought but not found (e.g., patient was asked but didn't know)

  UNKhttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavorunknown

**Description:**A proper value is applicable, but not known.

Usage Notes: This means the actual value is not known. If the only thing that is unknown is how to properly express the value in the necessary constraints (value set, datatype, etc.), then the OTH or UNC flavor should be used. No properties should be included for a datatype with this property unless:

  1. Those properties themselves directly translate to a semantic of "unknown". (E.g. a local code sent as a translation that conveys 'unknown')
  2. Those properties further qualify the nature of what is unknown. (E.g. specifying a use code of "H" and a URL prefix of "tel:" to convey that it is the home phone number that is unknown.)

Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:

Level A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies
System The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
Code The code (used as the code in the resource instance)
Display The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application
Definition An explanation of the meaning of the concept
Comments Additional notes about how to use the code