US Core Implementation Guide
8.0.0-ballot - STU8 Ballot
US Core Implementation Guide
8.0.0-ballot - STU8 Ballot
US Core Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Cross-Group Projects. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 8.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/US-Core/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
| Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-sex | Version: 8.0.0-ballot | |||
| Standards status: Trial-use | Maturity Level: 3 | Computable Name: USCoreSexExtension | ||
| Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.2.42.60 | ||||
Copyright/Legal: Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License |
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The Sex Extension is used to reflect the documentation of a person's sex. Systems choosing to record sources of information should use the Provenance resource.
USCDI includes a data element for sex, intended to support the exchange of a sex value that is not characterized as sex assigned at birth or birth sex. This Sex extension supports USCDI. Sex assigned at birth or birth sex can be recorded using the more specific US Core Birth Sex Extension. Future versions of this extension may be informed by the content of the HL7 Cross Paradigm IG: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, which may include additional guidance on its relationship to administrative gender (Patient.gender).
Context of Use
This extension may be used on the following element(s):
Profile Specific Implementation Guidance:
This Simple Extension has a value to communicate concepts used for general documentation of sex representation. One of those concepts, SNOMED CT code: "33791000087105 | Identifies as nonbinary gender (finding)", meets the definition of 'X' as described by government organizations:
Fluctuating between male and female, or identifying as either having a gender that is in-between or beyond the two categories or as having no gender, either permanently or some of the time.
Usage info
Usage:
Changes since version 7.0.0:
Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work.
This structure is derived from Extension
Summary
Simple Extension of type code: The Sex Extension is used to reflect the documentation of a person's sex. Systems choosing to record sources of information should use the Provenance resource.
USCDI includes a data element for sex, intended to support the exchange of a sex value that is not characterized as sex assigned at birth or birth sex. This Sex extension supports USCDI. Sex assigned at birth or birth sex can be recorded using the more specific US Core Birth Sex Extension. Future versions of this extension may be informed by the content of the HL7 Cross Paradigm IG: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, which may include additional guidance on its relationship to administrative gender (Patient.gender).
Maturity: 3
This structure is derived from Extension
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
  Extension |
0..1 | Extension | Extension | |
 url |
1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-sex" | |
  value[x] |
1..1 | code | Value of extension Binding: Sex  (extensible): Concepts used for general documentation of sex representation | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension |
0..1 | Extension | Extension | |
| id |
0..1 | string | Unique id for inter-element referencing | |
 extension |
0..* | Extension | Additional content defined by implementations Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url | |
| url |
1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-sex" | |
| value[x] |
1..1 | code | Value of extension Binding: Sex (extensible): Concepts used for general documentation of sex representation | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
This structure is derived from Extension
Summary
Simple Extension of type code: The Sex Extension is used to reflect the documentation of a person's sex. Systems choosing to record sources of information should use the Provenance resource.
USCDI includes a data element for sex, intended to support the exchange of a sex value that is not characterized as sex assigned at birth or birth sex. This Sex extension supports USCDI. Sex assigned at birth or birth sex can be recorded using the more specific US Core Birth Sex Extension. Future versions of this extension may be informed by the content of the HL7 Cross Paradigm IG: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, which may include additional guidance on its relationship to administrative gender (Patient.gender).
Maturity: 3
Differential View
This structure is derived from Extension
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension |
0..1 | Extension | Extension | |
| url |
1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-sex" | |
| value[x] |
1..1 | code | Value of extension Binding: Sex (extensible): Concepts used for general documentation of sex representation | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
Snapshot View
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension |
0..1 | Extension | Extension | |
| id |
0..1 | string | Unique id for inter-element referencing | |
| extension |
0..* | Extension | Additional content defined by implementations Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url | |
| url |
1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-sex" | |
| value[x] |
1..1 | code | Value of extension Binding: Sex (extensible): Concepts used for general documentation of sex representation | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel, Schematron
| Path | Conformance | ValueSet | URI |
| Extension.value[x] | extensible | Sex http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1240.3 |
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