Sex [NAACCR v.11] 21840-4
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 21840-4 | ||||
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| name | Sex [NAACCR v.11] | ||||
| description | Code for the sex of the patient, created for the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11. | ||||
| status | ACTIVE | ||||
Fully-Specified Name | |||||
| component | Sex | ||||
| property | Type = Type: The Property Type is used for assays that identify the specific analyte in cases when the baseline presence of the analyte is known. | ||||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||||
| system | ^Patient | ||||
| scale | Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody. | ||||
| method | NAACCR v.11 | ||||
Additional Names | |||||
| short name | Sex NAACCR v.11 | ||||
Basic Attributes | |||||
| class | TUMRRGT | ||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||
Associated Observations | |||||
LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations. | |||||
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History/Usage | |||||
| test rank | 11193 of 2000 most commonly performed tests by labs in USA | ||||
| first released | |||||
| last updated | 2.73 | ||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||
| change reason | Changed Component from 'Gender' to 'Sex' to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of this concept. | ||||
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