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  2. FHIR-24652

Request to add age as an extension to the Patient resource

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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • STU3
    • Patient Administration
    • Patient
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      PA Conf Call - April 13 2022

      There are issues with using Patient age that have been discussed in previous trackers.  Issues include:

      • Needing to constantly update the age as time goes on, or measure it relative to some reference date.
      • Handling consistency with the DOB property.

       

      There is an existing extension for relative date, but that would carry forward the issues above.  Patient.birthDate can be partial, so you can provide only a year with no month or day as a way to indicate an approximate date from which age can be inferred.

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      PA Conf Call - April 13 2022 There are issues with using Patient age that have been discussed in previous trackers.  Issues include: Needing to constantly update the age as time goes on, or measure it relative to some reference date. Handling consistency with the DOB property.   There is an existing extension for relative date, but that would carry forward the issues above.  Patient.birthDate can be partial, so you can provide only a year with no month or day as a way to indicate an approximate date from which age can be inferred.
    • Brian Postlethwaite / Alex de Leon : 3-0-0

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      Hello,

      The Patient resource currently only includes Date of Birth but not Age. As DOB is considered PHI, for de-identifying purposes we collect Age instead of (or in addition to) DOB as part of a test order to comply with CLIA regulations.

      Can Age be added as an extension to the patient resource? We have created the extension and would appreciate it if it can be added to the HL7 registry.

      Thanks, Mullai

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