This field contains the patient's sex. As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in Instead of asking for a person’s sex, some medical and camp forms these days ask for “sex assigned at birth” or “assigned sex” (often in addition to gender identity) The american medical association and the american psychological association endorse this terminology Its use has also exploded in. Qdm datatype and definition patient characteristic, sex data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that the patient's sex matches the qdm category and its corresponding value set
Birth (administrative) sex does not have a specific timing. Typically, this lags behind the current gender identity, and is not fluid like gender identity can be, though it may eventually be reconciled, depending on culture and jurisdication Sex at birth is different thing again. The administrative sex should be the gender listed on the patient's driver's license The birth sex should be recorded as the answer to this question that you need to ask the patient Your driver's license shows your gender as <female/male>.was this also your gender at birth? note
Sex is different than gender Sex is biologically determined and gender is culturally determined The term sex can refer to biological sex, sex assigned at birth or administrative sex Esponse to hormones, and reproductive anatomy Traditionally thought of as either male or female, sex also includes numerous biological sex conditions that do The health level seven (hl7) standards development organization, responsible for authoring an information exchange computer language used by ehrs, recognized the need to message distinct concepts for “administrative sex” and “clinical gender” in their standards beginning in 2000.
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