| Purpose | (Clinical Focus: This value set includes concepts used to represent race categories as defined by the U.S. federal government under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 1997 standards for race and ethnicity data collection. The standard defines 5 ethnicity categories:
American Indian' or 'Alaska Native', 'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander', and 'White'
These definitions are outlined in the OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (62 FR 58782, October 30, 1997).
Reference: OMB 1997 Standards – Federal Register
This grouped value set also includes concepts to indicate when when race is unknown, an individual declines to provide a response or declines to answer.),(Data Element Scope: This value set is limited to the five federally defined race categories plus Other race and includes options to indicate when race is unknown, not known by the individual, or declined to be provided.),(Inclusion Criteria: Includes codes from the CDCREC code system representing the five federally defined race categories and “Other Race,” along with HL7 NullFlavor codes ASKU (asked but unknown) and UNK (unknown), and the FHIR Data Absent Reason code "asked-declined."),(Exclusion Criteria: No other CDCREC codes or HL7 Null values are included.) |
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