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CodeSystem: administrativeSex

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0001 Version: 2.0.0
Active as of 2019-12-01 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: AdministrativeSex
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.18.2

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Code system of concepts specifying a patient’s sex for administrative purposes. Used in HL7 Version 2.x messages in the PID segment.

Underlying Master Code System for V2 table 0001 (Administrative Sex)

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

Generated Narrative: CodeSystem v2-0001

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
status status http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#status code Status of the concept
deprecated deprecated http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v2-table-deprecated code Version of HL7 in which the code was deprecated
V2 Concept Comment v2-concComment http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v2-concComment string V2 Concept Comment

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0001 defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:

CodeDisplayDefinitionV2 Concept CommentDeutsch (German, de)
F Female Female weiblich
M Male Male männlich
O Other Other andere
U Unknown Unknown unbekannt
A Ambiguous Ambiguous mehrdeutig
N Not applicable Not applicable nicht zutreffend
X Non-Binary Intended for situations where the gender or sex representation of the individual is not strictly male, or strictly female, and is driven by jurisdictional requirements, personal needs, or legal boundaries. A universally agreed upon single definition for non-binary does not exist. Non-binary should be used in jurisdictions which have implemented an option to declare a gender of “non-binary”

History

DateActionCustodianAuthorComment
2023-11-14reviseTSMGMarc DuteauAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2020-05-06reviseVocabulary WGTed KleinMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.