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OMB Race Categories

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  },
  "url" : "http://fhir.org/guides/argonaut/ValueSet/omb-race",
  "name" : "OMB Race Categories",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : true,
  "publisher" : "Argonaut Project",
  "contact" : [
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "date" : "2016-05-25T16:59:08+10:00",
  "description" : "The codes for the concepts 'Unknown' and  'Asked but no answer' and the the codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native', 'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander', and 'White' - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards) .",
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        "concept" : [
          {
            "code" : "1002-5",
            "display" : "American Indian or Alaska Native"
          },
          {
            "code" : "2028-9",
            "display" : "Asian"
          },
          {
            "code" : "2054-5",
            "display" : "Black or African American"
          },
          {
            "code" : "2076-8",
            "display" : "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander"
          },
          {
            "code" : "2106-3",
            "display" : "White"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "system" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/NullFlavor",
        "concept" : [
          {
            "code" : "UNK",
            "display" : "Unknown"
          },
          {
            "code" : "ASKU",
            "display" : "Asked but no answer"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}