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HL7 Table 0001 - Administrative Sex

HL7 Table 0001 (Administrative Sex) lists the coded values HL7 v2 messages use for the administrative sex of a patient, carried in PID-8.

Table0001
NameAdministrative Sex
Carried inPID-8
Codes shown3 sample codes
CodeMeaning
FFemale
MMale
UUnknown

Example

A live, engine-generated example lands here with the phase-1 data export.

Validation context

  • strict A PID-8 value outside this table raises a coded-value finding in strict mode.

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup table 0001

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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