80908-7
Ethnicity [CDC]
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Term Description
This item is used for reporting ethnicity details for persons of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity based on the categories used for birth and death reporting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This term was created for, but is not limited in use to, the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Vital Records Death Reporting, Release 1.
Fully-Specified Name
- Component
- Ethnicity
- Property
- Type
- Time
- Pt
- System
- ^Patient
- Scale
- Nom
- Method
- CDC
Normative Answer List: LL3928-0
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Externally Defined
- Yes
- Code System
- CDC-PHIN
- Code System OID
- 2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.7376
- Link to External List
- https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewValueSet.action?oid=2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.7376
Basic Attributes
- Class
- SURVEY.CDC
- Type
- Surveys
- First Released
- Version 2.56
- Last Updated
- Version 2.61 (MIN)
- Order vs. Observation
- Observation
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