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Definition for Value SetEntityNamePartQualifier
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"><id value="name-part-qualifier"/><meta ><lastUpdated value="2019年10月24日T11:53:00+11:00"/><profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablevalueset"/></meta><text ><status value="extensions"/><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2 >EntityNamePartQualifier</h2><div ><p >A set of codes each of which specifies a certain subcategory of the name part in addition to the main name part type</p></div><p >This value set includes codes from the following code systems:</p><ul ><li >Include these codes as defined in <a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html"><code >http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2</code></a><table class="none"><tr ><td ><b >Code</b></td><td ><b >Display</b></td><td ><b >Definition</b></td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-LS">LS</a></td><td >Legal status</td><td >For organizations a suffix indicating the legal status, e.g., Inc., "Co.", "AG", "GmbH", "B.V." "S.A.", "Ltd." Etc.</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-AC">AC</a></td><td >Academic</td><td >Indicates that a prefix like "Dr." or a suffix like "M.D." or "Ph.D." is an academic title.</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-NB">NB</a></td><td >Nobility</td><td >In Europe and Asia, there are still people with nobility titles (aristocrats). German "von" is generally a nobility title, not a mere voorvoegsel. Others are "Earl of" or "His Majesty King of..." etc. Rarely used nowadays, but some systems do keep track of this.</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-PR">PR</a></td><td >Professional</td><td >Primarily in the British Imperial culture people tend to have an abbreviation of their professional organization as part of their credential suffices</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-HON">HON</a></td><td >Honorific</td><td >An honorific such as "The Right Honourable" or "Weledelgeleerde Heer".</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-BR">BR</a></td><td >Birth</td><td >A name that a person was given at birth or established as a consequence of adoption. NOTE: This is not used for temporary names assigned at birth such as 'Baby of Smith' – which is just a name with a use code of TEMP</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-AD">AD</a></td><td >Acquired</td><td >A name part a person acquired. The name part may be acquired by adoption, or the person may have chosen to use the name part for some other reason. NOTE This differs from an other/psuedonym/alias in that an acquired name part is acquired on a formal basis rather than an informal one (e.g. registered as part of the official name)</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-SP">SP</a></td><td >Spouse</td><td >The name assumed from the partner in a marital relationship. Usually the spouse‘s family name. No inference about gender may be made from the existence of spouse names</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-MID">MID</a></td><td >Middle Name</td><td >Indicates that the name part is a middle name. In general, the English "middle name" concept is all of the given names after the first. This qualifier may be used to explicitly indicate which given names are considered to be middle names. The middle name qualifier may also be used with family names. This is a Scandinavian use case, matching the concept of "mellomnavn"/"mellannamn". There are specific rules that indicate what names may be taken as a mellannamnin different Scandinavian countries</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-CL">CL</a></td><td >Call me</td><td >Callme is used to indicate which of the various name parts is used when interacting with the person</td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2-IN">IN</a></td><td >Initial</td><td >Indicates that a name part is just an initial. Initials do not imply a trailing period since this would not work with non-Latin scripts. Initials may consist of more than one letter, e.g., "Ph." could stand for "Philippe" or "Th." for "Thomas"</td></tr></table></li><li >Include these codes as defined in <a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifier/cs.html"><code >http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityNamePartQualifier</code></a><table class="none"><tr ><td ><b >Code</b></td><td ><b >Display</b></td><td ><b >Definition</b></td></tr><tr ><td ><a href="v3/EntityNamePartQualifier/cs.html#v3-EntityNamePartQualifier-VV">VV</a></td><td >Voorvoegsel</td><td >A Dutch "voorvoegsel" is something like "van" or "de" that might have indicated nobility in the past but no longer so. Similar prefixes exist in other languages such as German, Spanish, French or Portugese</td></tr></table></li></ul></div></text><extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ballot-status"><valueString value="Informative"/></extension><extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm"><valueInteger value="0"/></extension><url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/name-part-qualifier"/><identifier ><system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/><value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.825"/></identifier><version value="3.0.2"/><name value="EntityNamePartQualifier"/><status value="draft"/><experimental value="false"/><date value="2019年10月24日T11:53:00+11:00"/><publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/><contact ><telecom ><system value="url"/><value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/></telecom><telecom ><system value="email"/><value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/></telecom></contact><description value="A set of codes each of which specifies a certain subcategory of the name part in addition to the main name part type"/><compose ><include ><system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityNamePartQualifierR2"/><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="For organizations a suffix indicating the legal status, e.g., Inc., "Co.", "AG", "GmbH", "B.V." "S.A.", "Ltd." Etc."/></extension><code value="LS"/><display value="Legal status"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="Indicates that a prefix like "Dr." or a suffix like "M.D." or "Ph.D." is an academic title."/></extension><code value="AC"/><display value="Academic"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="In Europe and Asia, there are still people with nobility titles (aristocrats). German "von" is generally a nobility title, not a mere voorvoegsel. Others are "Earl of" or "His Majesty King of..." etc. Rarely used nowadays, but some systems do keep track of this."/></extension><code value="NB"/><display value="Nobility"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="Primarily in the British Imperial culture people tend to have an abbreviation of their professional organization as part of their credential suffices"/></extension><code value="PR"/><display value="Professional"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="An honorific such as "The Right Honourable" or "Weledelgeleerde Heer"."/></extension><code value="HON"/><display value="Honorific"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="A name that a person was given at birth or established as a consequence of adoption. NOTE: This is not used for temporary names assigned at birth such as 'Baby of Smith' – which is just a name with a use code of TEMP"/></extension><code value="BR"/><display value="Birth"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="A name part a person acquired. The name part may be acquired by adoption, or the person may have chosen to use the name part for some other reason. NOTE This differs from an other/psuedonym/alias in that an acquired name part is acquired on a formal basis rather than an informal one (e.g. registered as part of the official name)"/></extension><code value="AD"/><display value="Acquired"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="The name assumed from the partner in a marital relationship. Usually the spouse‘s family name. No inference about gender may be made from the existence of spouse names"/></extension><code value="SP"/><display value="Spouse"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="Indicates that the name part is a middle name. In general, the English "middle name" concept is all of the given names after the first. This qualifier may be used to explicitly indicate which given names are considered to be middle names. The middle name qualifier may also be used with family names. This is a Scandinavian use case, matching the concept of "mellomnavn"/"mellannamn". There are specific rules that indicate what names may be taken as a mellannamnin different Scandinavian countries"/></extension><code value="MID"/><display value="Middle Name"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="Callme is used to indicate which of the various name parts is used when interacting with the person"/></extension><code value="CL"/><display value="Call me"/></concept><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="Indicates that a name part is just an initial. Initials do not imply a trailing period since this would not work with non-Latin scripts. Initials may consist of more than one letter, e.g., "Ph." could stand for "Philippe" or "Th." for "Thomas""/></extension><code value="IN"/><display value="Initial"/></concept></include><include ><system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityNamePartQualifier"/><concept ><extensionurl="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-definition"><valueStringvalue="A Dutch "voorvoegsel" is something like "van" or "de" that might have indicated nobility in the past but no longer so. Similar prefixes exist in other languages such as German, Spanish, French or Portugese"/></extension><code value="VV"/><display value="Voorvoegsel"/></concept></include></compose></ValueSet>
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.