STATUS:
| Status | ||||
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Resource affected | Patient | Decision | |
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Approved by | Interdepartmental Metrics Working Group | ||
Initial implementation | Expected early August | Last update | Jul 18th Q4 2023 |
Definition
An individual's physical and/or emotional attraction to another individual of the same gender, opposite gender, or both genders. Sexual orientation is independent of gender identity and biological sex (aka sex assigned at birth).
Based on term https://loinc.org/76690-7/
Initial standard values [July 2023]
Based on LOINC Answer List https://loinc.org/LL3323-4 for term https://loinc.org/76690-7/
Code | Code System | Display | aka / description | LOINC | SNOMED CT | HETIn LOINC ValueSet LL3323-4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST | Heterosexual | Straight | X | |||||
LE | HOFpcorn | Female Homosexual | Lesbian | Homosexual | 89217008*HOM | just Homosexual | ||
GA | Male Homosexual | Gay | just Homosexual | |||||
BI | BSXpcorn | Bisexual | X | |||||
OTH | Other | ??? | X | |||||
ASKU | Asked but unknown | Person asked and does not know or is not sure Sexual orientation undecided | DND | Did not disclose | X | |||
DC | Decline to answer (see note) | Prefer not to say Asked but unknown not given – patient refused | ||||||
UNK | Unknown | X |
*SNOMED CT: Female Homosexual and Male Homosexual can be mapped to Homosexual 38628009
Sources: LOINC | UK NHS | HealthIT | pcornet | verified with SNOMED BROWSER
Note: FHIR does NOT plan to add an option for “decline to answer”
Values that we will add when the request is validated
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Code | Answer | Code Ref | LOINC | SNOMED CT | ICD-10/11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AS | Asexual | ||||
QU | Queer | ||||
QS | Questioning | ||||
MU | Multiple Sexual Orientations | ||||
SE | Something Else |
Other value sets considered, but not used
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ValueSet: PCORNet Sexual Orientation (from US Common Data Models Harmonization)
ValueSet : Gender Identity (from HL7)ValueSet: Gender Identity (from HL7). Present in FHIR v4 but not in FHIR v5from Answer List https://loinc.org/LL3323-4 for term https://loinc.org/76690-7/: https://fhir.loinc.org/ValueSet/LL3323-4 [canonical URL:
http://loinc.org/vs/LL3323-4]