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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-30126

Ethnicity code system

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    • US Birth and Fetal Death Reporting (FHIR)
    • 0.1.0 [deprecated]
    • Public Health
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      It is not the same as used in US Core Patient, no. These value sets are only used in the data flow from NCHS to the Vital Records Office. EHR implementers will not be affected or burdened by this difference to US Core Patient. The data is used by NHCS to permit estimation and comparison of race-specific statistics at a point in time or over time for use in calculating vital rates.

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      It is not the same as used in US Core Patient, no. These value sets are only used in the data flow from NCHS to the Vital Records Office. EHR implementers will not be affected or burdened by this difference to US Core Patient. The data is used by NHCS to permit estimation and comparison of race-specific statistics at a point in time or over time for use in calculating vital rates.
    • Sarah Gaunt / Cindy Bush : 25-0-0

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      The ethnicity code ValueSet  

      http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity

      Is not the same as used in US Core Patient.  Unless prevented by some regulatory requirement,  the same value sets and references to VSAC should be used to reduce provider burden and confusion.

      https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.837/expansion

      and

      https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.877/expansion

       

       

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            minigrrl Sarah Gaunt
            ehaas Eric Haas
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