HL7 Terminology (THO)
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CodeSystem: ethnicGroup

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0189 Version: 2.0.0
Active as of 2019-12-01 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: EthnicGroup
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.18.100

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Code system of concepts further defining a patient's ancestry. In the US, a current use is to use these codes to report ethnicity in line with US federal standards for Hispanic origin. Used for HL7 Version 2 messaging in the PID segment.

Underlying Master Code System for V2 table 0189 (Ethnic Group)

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

Generated Narrative: CodeSystem v2-0189

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

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0189 defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:

CodeDisplayDefinition
H Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Latino
N Not Hispanic or Latino Not Hispanic or Latino
U Unknown Unknown

History

DateActionAuthorCustodianComment
2023-11-14reviseMarc DuteauTSMGAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2020-05-06reviseTed KleinVocabulary WGMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.