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CodeSystem: AdministrativeGender

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-AdministrativeGender Version: 3.0.0
Active as of 2019-03-20 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: AdministrativeGender
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.5.1

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The gender of a person used for adminstrative purposes (as opposed to clinical gender)

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

Generated Narrative: CodeSystem v3-AdministrativeGender

Language: en

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
Specializes Specializes Coding The child code is a more narrow version of the concept represented by the parent code. I.e. Every child concept is also a valid parent concept. Used to allow determination of subsumption. Must be transitive, irreflexive, antisymmetric.
Generalizes Generalizes Coding Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship.
internalId internalId http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v3-internal-id code The internal identifier for the concept in the HL7 Access database repository.
Status status http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status code Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired.

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-AdministrativeGender defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:

CodeDisplayDefinitioninternalIdStatus
F Female

Female

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M Male

Male

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UN Undifferentiated

En: The gender of a person could not be uniquely defined as male or female, such as intersex. Nl: Het geslacht van een persoon kan niet uniek worden gedefinieerd als man of vrouw, zoals een intersekse-conditie.

Open Issue: This is a short-term stopgap solution to the definition issue, full solutions are being worked out by the Gender Harmony project launched in 2019.

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History

DateActionCustodianAuthorComment
2023-11-14reviseTSMGMarc DuteauAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2022-10-18reviseTSMGMarc DuteauFixing missing metadata; up-349
2022-02-17 00:00:32+1100reviseVocabulary WGGrahame GrievePopulate Missing caseSensitive property; UP-286
2020-05-06reviseVocabulary WGTed KleinMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.