LS Legal status For organizations a suffix indicating the legal status, e.g., Inc., "Co.", "AG", "GmbH", "B.V." "S.A.", "Ltd." Etc.
AC Academic Indicates that a prefix like "Dr." or a suffix like "M.D." or "Ph.D." is an academic title.
NB Nobility 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.
PR Professional Primarily in the British Imperial culture people tend to have an abbreviation of their professional organization as part of their credential suffices
HON Honorific An honorific such as "The Right Honourable" or "Weledelgeleerde Heer".
BR Birth 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
AD Acquired 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)
SP Spouse 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
MID Middle Name 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
CL Call me Callme is used to indicate which of the various name parts is used when interacting with the person
IN Initial 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"
VV
Voorvoegsel
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
LS http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Legal status
**Description:**For organizations a suffix indicating the legal status, e.g., "Inc.", "Co.", "AG", "GmbH", "B.V." "S.A.", "Ltd." etc.
AC http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Academic
**Description:**Indicates that a title like "Dr.", "M.D." or "Ph.D." is an academic title.
NB http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Nobility
**Description:**A nobility title such as Sir, Count, Grafin.
PR http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Professional
**Description:**Primarily in the British Imperial culture people tend to have an abbreviation of their professional organization as part of their credential titles.
HON http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Honorific
**Description:**A honorific such as "The Right Honourable" or "Weledelgeleerde Heer".
**Description:**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" a" which is just a name with a use code of "TEMP".
AD http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Acquired
**Description:**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).
**Description:**The name assumed from the partner in a marital relationship. Usually the spouse's family name. Note that no inference about gender can be made from the existence of spouse names.
MID http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Middle Name
**Description:**Indicates that the name part is a middle name.
Usage Notes: 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". Note that there are specific rules that indicate what names may be taken as a mellannamn in different Scandinavian countries.
CL http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Call me
**Description:**Used to indicate which of the various name parts is used when interacting with the person.
IN http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityNamePartQualifierR2 Initial
**Description:**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. In some languages, initials may consist of more than one letter, e.g., "Ph" could stand for "Philippe" or "Th" For "Thomas".
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 Spanish, French or Portugese.
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Code
The code (used as the code in the resource instance)
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