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: OMB Race Categories - XML Representation

Active as of 2022-09-29

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<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="omb-race-category"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This value set includes codes based on the following rules:</p><ul><li>Import all the codes that are contained in <a href="https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.836/expansion">Race</a></li><li>Import all the codes that are contained in <a href="https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1021.102/expansion">Unknown or refused to answer</a></li></ul></div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-race-category"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.575"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.1.0"/>
  <name value="OmbRaceCategories"/>
  <title value="OMB Race Categories"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2022-09-29"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International - Cross-Group Projects"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="HL7 International - Cross-Group Projects"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cgp"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="cgp@lists.HL7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="The codes for the concepts 'Unknown', 'Asked but Unknown', 'Other Race'* and
the codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native',
'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander', and 'White' - 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.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-10-30/pdf/97-28653.pdf)

\* The use of 'Other Race' is discouraged for statistical analysis."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <copyright
             value="Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License"/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <valueSet
                value="http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.836"/>
    </include>
    <include>
      <valueSet
                value="http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1021.102"/>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>