Sex [HL7.v3]   72143-1

LOINC Code


LOINC code72143-1
nameSex [HL7.v3]
descriptionSex of the patient, created for HL7 v3's "Administrative gender" concept, which represents the sex of a person used for adminstrative purposes (such as registering a patient in a hospital EHR). [https://www.hl7.org/fhir/v3/AdministrativeGender/index.html]
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentSex
propertyType  =  Type:  The Property Type is used for assays that identify the specific analyte in cases when the baseline presence of the analyte is known.
timePt  =  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
scaleNom  =  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.
methodHL7.v3

Additional Names

short name

Basic Attributes

classSURVEY.GNHLTH
type4  Surveys
order vs. observationObservation

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.

Member of these Panels

76452-2APTA Registry patient registration panel
75854-0PCORnet common data model set - version 1.0 [PCORnet]
85057-8PCORnet Common Data Model set - version 3.0 [PCORnet]
92564-4Physical therapy plan of care panel
72156-3Rwandan maternal screening panel [RHEA]

History/Usage

first released
last updated2.67
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name
change reasonChanged Component from 'Gender' to 'Sex' to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of this concept.

Related Names

Gender
Nominal
Point in time
Random
Survey
SURVEY.GNHLTH
Typ

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