low level details for the care connect patient 'gender' element
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Gender Implementation Guide
Use case
This specification describes a single use case.
Element Usage
Gender element provides an code to indicate the sex or gender of the patient to which the record belongs.
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| Type | name | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primitive | gender | code | Patients gender used for administration purposes |
- ‘gender’ MUST be populated using one of the codes within the CareConnect-AdministrativeGender-1 valueset.
- Additional codes are not permitted.
Gender uses the INTEROpen valueset CareConnect-AdministrativeGender-1 which MUST be used to identify the patients gender. No other codes are valid.
http://hl7.org.uk/CareConnect-AdministrativeGender-1.valueset.xml
| Code | Display | Definition |
| male | Male | Male |
| female | Female | Female |
| other | Other | Other |
| unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Example of Correct Usage
| Usage | Element | examples | Comments |
 |
gender |
male | Gender stored using correct code |
|
female | ||
|
other |
Example of Incorrect Usage
| Usage | Element | examples | Comments |
 |
gender |
Male | Gender stored using incorrect code |
|
Female | ||
|
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On the wire XML example
<gender value="male"/>
On the wire example in JSON
{
"gender": { "-value": "male" }
}
Error Handling
The provider system SHALL return an error if:
- The value of
genderis omitted - The value does not match one from the CareConnect-AdministrativeGender-1 valueset