Stream: implementers
Topic: Question about Patient.name
Hanhong Lu (Feb 19 2018 at 19:27):
Some international patients have last name pieces that are not used for sorting purpose, like “van der”. Should these pieces go in the family element, the given element, or an extension?
John Moehrke (Feb 19 2018 at 19:34):
Please look at what is in the specification around HumanName http://build.fhir.org/datatypes.html#HumanName
Cooper Thompson (Feb 19 2018 at 20:08):
We've taken a look both at the base HumanName data type, as well as all the extensions.
[edit] Nevermind, I see now. I was thinking we wanted the prefix to be independent of the own/partner structure, but it looks like Dutch names really do keep that prefix bound to the specific surname. So own-prefix and partner-prefix extensions will be the appropriate solution.
Lilian Minne (Feb 21 2018 at 11:48):
In the Netherlands, HumanName is profiled at a national level to capture this. Extensions for own-prefix and partner-prefix were indeed used here. See: https://simplifier.net/NictizSTU3/nl-core-humanname
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