76691-5

Gender identity

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Term Description

This term was created for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2015 Edition Health Information Technology (Health IT) Certification Criteria final rule. [https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/10/16/2015-25597/2015-edition-health-information-technology-health-it-certification-criteria-2015-edition-base]

Part Description

LP189571-5 Gender identity
An individual's personal sense of being a man, woman, or other gender, regardless of the sex that person was assigned at birth. [http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/18/LGBTFieldGuide.pdf] Source: Regenstrief LOINC , Joint Commission: LGBT Field Guide

Fully-Specified Name

Component: Gender identity
Property: Type
Time: Pt
System: ^Patient
Scale: Nom
Method: Reported

Additional Names

Long Common Name: Gender identity
Short Name: Gender identity

Example Answer List: LL3322-6

Source: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Answer	Code	Score	Answer ID
Identifies as maleCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:446151000124109 Identifies as male gender (finding)			LA22878-5
Identifies as femaleCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:446141000124107 Identifies as female gender (finding)			LA22879-3
Female-to-male transsexualCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:407377005 Female-to-male transsexual (finding)			LA22880-1
Male-to-female transsexualCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:407376001 Male-to-female transsexual (finding)			LA22881-9
Identifies as non-conformingCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:446131000124102 Identifies as non-conforming gender (finding)			LA22882-7
Other			LA46-8
Asked but unknown			LA20384-6

Basic Attributes

Class: CLIN
Type: Clinical
First Released: Version 2.52
Last Updated: Version 2.73 (MIN)
Order vs. Observation: Both
Common Test Rank Get Info: 16332

Language Variants Get Info

Tag	Language	Translation
el-GR	Greek (Greece)	Ταυτότητα φύλου:Type:Pt:^Ασθενής:Nom:Αναφερόμενη Synonyms: Type Ταυτότητα φύλου
es-MX	Spanish (Mexico)	Identidad de género:Tipo:Punto temporal:^ Paciente:Nominal:Reported
fr-CA	French (Canada)	Identité de genre:Type:Temps ponctuel:^Patient:Nominal:Rapporté
it-IT	Italian (Italy)	Identità di genere:Tipo:Pt:^Paziente:Nom:Riportato Synonyms: Clinico paziente Punto nel tempo (episodio)
zh-CN	Chinese (China)	性别认同:类型:时间点:^患者:名义型:报告法 Synonyms: 分类型应答;分类型结果;名义性;名称型;名词型;名词性;标称性;没有自然次序的名义型或分类型应答医疗服务对象;客户;病人;病患;病号;超系统 - 病人型性性别身份;性别认同身份;性别认定;性身份;性别同一性;社会性别身份;性别特性时刻;随机;随意;瞬间

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