Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care

Discharge Summary Release 0.02

The content of this release is not comprehensive and is not fully validated and must not be used in live system implementations.

COMPOSITION: PersonEntity

Respresents a living or deceased person.

Specializes

PersonEntity

Attributes

Name Data type Occurs Description Value constraints
determinerCode CS 1..1 A coded representation of whether this entity is a class or an instance.
code
Literal value(s): INSTANCE
code
name EN.PN 0..* An attribute to represent the name of a PERSON_ENTITY.
gender CD.CV 0..1 A coded representation of the current gender of the person. Gender is an individual’s self-declared (or inferred by observation for those unable to declare) perception of being male or female. Person gender is behavioural (i.e. how an individual wishes to be treated socially) and must not be confused with person sex which determines how an individual will be treated medically.
code
ethnicCategory CD.CV 0..1 A coded representation of the ethnic category of the person.
code
birthTime TS.Birth 0..1 The date (and time where available) the person was born.
deceasedTime TS 0..1 The date (and time where available) the person died.
birthPlace AD 0..1 A representation of the person's place of birth.
birthOrderNumber INT.Pos 0..1 The order in which this person was born if part of a multiple birth from a single pregnancy.
maritalStatus CD.CV 0..1 A coded representation of the legal marital or civil partnership status of the person.
organDonorType CD.CV.SCT 0..* A coded representation of the consent of a person to be added to the NHS Organ Donor Register for donation of a particular organ or tissue to be used for transplantation after death. Note, there is currently no mechanism for the representation of ‘Other’ (e.g. ‘Any other tissue or organ’) within a SNOMED CT expression constraint. This issue remains under investigation in the LRA.
religiousAffiliation CD.CV 0..1 A coded representation of the self-identified association of the person with a religion, denomination, or sub-denominational religious group.


Reference Model Type

PERSON_ENTITY