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: OMB Race Categories - JSON Representation

Active as of 2022-09-29

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{
  "resourceType" : "ValueSet",
  "id" : "omb-race-category",
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<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>"
  },
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-race-category",
  "identifier" : [
    {
      "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
      "value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.575"
    }
  ],
  "version" : "6.0.0",
  "name" : "OmbRaceCategories",
  "title" : "OMB Race Categories",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2022-09-29",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International - Cross-Group Projects",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "HL7 International - Cross-Group Projects",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cgp"
        },
        {
          "system" : "email",
          "value" : "cgp@lists.HL7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "The codes for the concepts 'Unknown', 'Asked but Unknown', 'Other Race'* and\nthe codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native',\n'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific\nIslander', and 'White' - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining,\nCollecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical\nPolicy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30,\n1997](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-10-30/pdf/97-28653.pdf)\n\n\\* The use of 'Other Race' is discouraged for statistical analysis.",
  "jurisdiction" : [
    {
      "coding" : [
        {
          "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
          "code" : "US"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "copyright" : "Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License",
  "compose" : {
    "include" : [
      {
        "valueSet" : [
          "http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.836"
        ]
      },
      {
        "valueSet" : [
          "http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1021.102"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}