Preferred Label : Person Ethnic Surname Or Origin Code;
NCIt related terms : Person.ethnicSurnameOrOriginCode;
Alternative definition : BRIDG 5.3: A coded value specifying patients with a surname or origin of a particular
ethnicity. EXAMPLE(S): For the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance,
Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, patients of Hispanic origin are sometimes
of particular interest: 0 Non-Spanish/Non-Hispanic 1 Mexican (includes Chicano)
2 Puerto Rican 3 Cuban 4 South or Central American (except Brazil) 5 Other
specified Spanish/Hispanic origin (includes European; excludes Dominican Republic)
6 Spanish, NOS; Hispanic, NOS; Latino, NOS There is evidence, other than surname
or maiden name, that the person is Hispanic but he/she cannot be assigned to any of
the categories 1-5. 7 Spanish surname only (effective with diagnosis on or after
1/1/1994) The only evidence of the person's Hispanic origin is the surname or maiden
name and there is no evidence that he/she is not Hispanic. 8 Dominican Republic
(effective with diagnosis on or after 1/1/2005) 9 Unknown whether Spanish/Hispanic
or not OTHER NAME(S): NOTE(S): Surname and/or origin may or may not correspond to
any particular race.;
NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL978211;
Origin ID : C165014;
UMLS CUI : C5236807;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
