80908-7

LOINC Code


LOINC code80908-7
name
descriptionThis item is used for reporting ethnicity details for persons of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity based on the categories used for birth and death reporting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This term was created for, but is not limited in use to, the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Vital Records Death Reporting, Release 1.
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentEthnicity
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.
methodCDC  =  Complement-dependent Cytotoxicity

Additional Names

short nameCenters for Disease Control and Prevention; Nominal; Point in time; Random; Survey; SURVEY.CDC; Typ

Basic Attributes

classSURVEY.CDC
type4  Surveys

History/Usage

first released
last updated2.61
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

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