US Core Implementation Guide
4.0.0 - STU4 Release

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ValueSet: OMB Ethnicity Categories

Summary

Defining URL:http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity-category
Version:4.0.0
Name:OmbEthnicityCategories
Title:OMB Ethnicity Categories
Status:Active as of 2019-05-21
Definition:

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.

Publisher:HL7 International - US Realm Steering Committee
Copyright:

Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License

Source Resource:XML / JSON / Turtle

References

Logical Definition (CLD)

  • Include these codes as defined in urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238
    CodeDisplayDefinition
    2135-2Hispanic or LatinoHispanic or Latino
    2186-5Non Hispanic or LatinoNote that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the notion of "not otherwise coded" term is deprecated.

 

Expansion

This value set contains 2 concepts

Expansion based on Race & Ethnicity - CDC v4.0.0 (CodeSystem)

All codes from system urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238

CodeDisplayDefinition
2135-2Hispanic or LatinoHispanic or Latino
2186-5Non Hispanic or LatinoNote that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the notion of "not otherwise coded" term is deprecated.

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
Source 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