US Core Implementation Guide
5.0.0 - STU5 Release US

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ValueSet: OMB Ethnicity Categories

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity-category Version: 5.0.0
Active as of 2019-05-21 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

The publication tooling does not currently support generation of this Value Set expansion. We anticipate updates to enable this feature before the next version of this guide is published. We have provided the manual expansion below for your review.

Code System Display Definition
2135-2 urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238 Hispanic or Latino -
2186-5 urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238 Not Hispanic or Latino -
ASKU http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavor asked but unknown -
UNK http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavor unknown -

Logical Definition (CLD)

This value set includes codes based on the following rules:

 

Expansion

No Expansion for this valueset (not supported by Publication Tooling)

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