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Description
Provides the documented sex of the patient in a given case at the time of the case.
Limitation
Does not reflect gender as much as the sex of the individual. The distinction between sex and gender differentiates sex (the anatomy of an individual's reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics) from gender, which can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person (gender role) or personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness.
Data quality is limited to individual site documentation accuracy, completeness, and variable mapping, which is performed by each site, independently.
MPOG, as the coordinating center, reviews data quality at each data upload and monthly via Data Diagnostics and Case Validation tools. This review,
while thorough, may not contain all data elements relevant to this phenotype and thus should be carefully reviewed by the user.
Enumeration
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Logic
This collation looks at the pre-op note and determines if the patient is identified as a “M” (returns a 0) or a “F” (1).
If there is alphanumeric entry but does not identify as “male” or “female” this collation returns an “unknown” (-1)