Version 2.78

Term Description

Sex of the patient, created for HL7 v3's "Administrative gender" concept, which represents the sex of a person used for adminstrative purposes (such as registering a patient in a hospital EHR). [https://www.hl7.org/fhir/v3/AdministrativeGender/index.html]
Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Part Description

LP101395-4   Sex
In LOINC, sex refers to the biological sex of an organism, which is most commonly determined based on anatomy and physiology or genetic (chromosome) analysis. Our definition is based on the World Health Organization's definition of sex and gender: sex (male, female) refers to biological and physiological characteristics, and gender (masculine, feminine) refers to socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes. (http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en) Source: Regenstrief LOINC, WHO: gender

Fully-Specified Name

Component
Sex
Property
Type
Time
Pt
System
^Patient
Scale
Nom
Method
HL7.v3

Normative Answer List: LL2191-6

Source: HL7
Answer Code Score Answer ID
Male M LA2-8
Female F LA3-6
Undifferentiated UN LA18959-9

Basic Attributes

Class
SURVEY.GNHLTH
Type
Surveys
First Released
Version 2.42
Last Updated
Version 2.67
Change Reason
Changed Component from 'Gender' to 'Sex' to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of this concept.
Order vs. Observation
Observation

Member of these Panels

LOINC Long Common Name
76464-7 American Physical Therapy Association registry panel
75854-0 PCORnet common data model set - version 1.0 [PCORnet]
85057-8 PCORnet Common Data Model set - version 3.0 [PCORnet]
72156-3 Rwandan maternal screening panel [RHEA]

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