description | Duplicate of official CDC Detailed Race 16.840.1.114222.4.11.876
All concepts that can describe a person's "race" as defined by the United States Bureau of Census. This includes the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) five main categories, along with a sixth "Other race" category, plus all the more detailed descendant race concepts used by the US Bureau of Census. | This value set is based on the US Core Detailed Race value set (http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/detailed-race) but assigned a new OID due to its slightly different scope. It includes the CDCREC code 2131-1 (Other Race) in place of the HL7 nullFlavor code "OTH" (Other) | |
purpose | (Clinical Focus: All concepts that can describe a person's "race" as defined by the United States Bureau of Census),(Data Element Scope: Personal Demographic information, can be multiple.),(Inclusion Criteria: All descendant concepts from the concept "1000-9 Race", excluding that root concept, as derived from the Race and Ethnicity - CDC code system.),(Exclusion Criteria: Concepts that are not a descendant of "Race", therefore, no concepts descendant from "2133-7 Ethnicity". Also the root concept "Race".) | (Clinical Focus: All concepts that can describe a person's "race" as defined by the United States Bureau of Census and codes representing reasons for absent race data.),(Data Element Scope: Personal demographic race information.),(Inclusion Criteria: Includes all descendant concepts of "1000-9 Race" from the Race and Ethnicity – CDC code system, excluding the root concept itself. Also includes selected codes representing data absence reasons from HL7 NullFlavor and the FHIR Data Absent Reason code system, such as "asked but declined.),(Exclusion Criteria: Excludes all concepts that are not descendants of "1000-9 Race," including those under "2133-7 Ethnicity" and the root concept "Race" itself. Also excludes the HL7 nullFlavor code "OTH" (Other), as "Other Race" from the CDCREC code system is already included.) | |