# Presentation: 469651

## Data ElementStandards ProposalPerson Name Prefix Code

**Data Element****Standards Proposal****Person Name Prefix Code**

**Mary Cooper, SAIC**
**NCI Content Administrators**
**VCDE WS**
**Small Group Introduction**
**8/29/2007**

## Issues for Consideration

_**Focus**_
- 	Harmonize existing value domains
- 	Abbreviations for prefix social titles used with a person’s name
_**Specificity**_
- 	Speaking (ex., Dr. Smith)
- 	Written Address (ex., Mr. Smith)
- 	Uniformed Services Prefixes
_**Applicable Standards/References**__ _
- 	HL7 v2.x and 3 Ballot, CDISC, DICOM, ANSI HISPP MSDS, EPA, HR-XML
_**Out of Scope**_
- 	Abbreviations used as suffixes, such as academic degrees
- 	Position Honorifics (HRH, His Holiness, President)
- 	Royalty or Lineage Titles (Duke, Earl, Prince)

## Use Case Analysis

**Purpose of Standard:**
- Capture of formal titles as an abbreviated prefix to a person’s name
**Uses/Applications:**
- 		Lung Cancer Biomarker Chemoprevention Consortium
- 		CCR
- 		CDISC
- 		DICOM
- 		Firebird
- 		HL7 v2.x, v3 Ballot

## Current caDSR CDEs

- Set search parameter for CDEs with Permissible Value Lists

**Notes:**
Courtesy Title is more commonly used with Monarchical Titles, Royal and Non-royal titles (as in hereditary peerage), and Clerics.  Salutation, Social title, or Honorifics can be used.

## Current caDSR CDEs

| Data Element Public ID | Data Element Long Name | Data Element Context Name | Object Class Long Name | Classification Scheme Short Name |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2179587 | Person Name Prefix Code | DCP | Person | DCP/Category |
| 2179588 | Person Name Prefix Text | DCP | Person | DCP/Category |
| 2493309 | Person Person Name Prefix java.lang.String | caBIG | Person | CTMS Metadata Project |
| 2493330 | Participant Person Name Prefix java.lang.String | caBIG | Participant | CTMS Metadata Project |
| 2583493 | DICOM Prefix Name Person Name | caBIG | DICOM Prefix | DICOM |
| 2006474 | Courtesy Title | SPOREs | Title | CCR Implementation |

## Current caDSR CDEsCourtesy Title

## Reuse Current caDSR Value Domain Person Name Prefix Code (with modification)

**Notes:**
Add concepts/CUIs to VD and PVs.  Remove the family relationships (requires versioning).  Add military titles and the term “Master”.  

## Content Administrator Decisions Components for Standardization

- Person Name Prefix – New DEC
- Reuse DCP VDs with modifications to harmonize
- 		- Person Name Prefix Code
- 	  Add military titles as a separate set of CDE/Template

- Create a new CDE – Person Name Prefix Code
- Create new Template CDE – [Object Class] Name Prefix Code
- Add to existing Person Name standard

## Recommendation DetailsPerson Name Prefix Code

_**Person Name Prefix**_
**New DEC 2663163v1.0**
- Object = Person (C25190)
- Property = Name (C42614)
- Prop. Qualifier = Prefix (C54066)
- Definition:  An affix occurring before the
- beginning of a word or group of words
- indicating the identity of a person.

_**Person Name Prefix Code**_
- VD = Public ID 2179427v3.0
- Representation Term: Code (C25162)
- Definition:  The code that describes the title
- that precedes an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character
- Max length = 20
***Reused from DCP***

_**Person Name Prefix Code**_
**New CDE 2663165v1.0**
- Definition:  The code that describes an affix occurring before the beginning of a word or group of words for the title that precedes an individual's name.

**Data Element Concept**

**Value Domain**

**Data Element**

## Recommendation DetailsPerson Prefix Name Code Permissible Values(for non-military titles)

| Permissible Value | Value Meaning | Concept Code | Value Meaning Description (proposed) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bish. | Bishop  |  C69162 | A courtesy title for a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry. |
| Br. | Brother |  C48648 | A courtesy title for a member of a religious order, fraternity, movement, or other group. |
| Ch. | Chaplain  |  C69163 | A courtesy title for an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or to a military unit.  |
| Dr. | Doctor |  C69164 | A courtesy title for a person who has received a doctoral degree. |
| Fr. | Father |  C69165 | A courtesy title of reverence, as for church dignitaries, officers of monasteries, monks, confessors, and especially priests. |
| Mr. | Mister |  C69166 | A courtesy title of respect for a man.  |
| Miss | Miss |  C69167 | A courtesy title of respect for an unmarried woman. |
| Mrs. | Mrs  |  C69168 | A courtesy title of respect prefixed to the name of a married woman. |
| Ms. | Ms  | C69169 | A courtesy title used before the name of a woman without making a distinction between married or unmarried status. |
| Prof. | Professor | C69170 | A courtesy title for a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university. |
| R. | Rabbi | C69171 | A courtesy title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher.  |
| Rev. | Reverend | C69172 | A courtesy title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order. |
| Sis. | Sister | C48649 | A courtesy title for a member of a religious order, fraternity, movement, the nursing profession, or other group. |

## Recommendation DetailsPrefix Abbreviations for US Military Ranks

- Rank and Pay Grades are interconnected in meaning/definition
- Written address with rank as presented
- Spoken – dependent on situation/occasion
- Army and Navy (US Public Health CC)/Coast Guard abbreviate rank all capitals (CPT)
- Air Force and Marines use mixed case with periods (Capt.)
- Includes Officers and Enlisted ranks
- Recommendation - create new DEC/DE and reference lists in VD + Template
- Department of Defense Source - _[http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html](http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html)_
- _[http://](http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html)__[www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html](http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html)__[ ](http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html)_
- US Public Health Commissioned Corps Source:
- _[http://commcorps.shs.net/aboutus/uniforms.aspx](http://commcorps.shs.net/aboutus/uniforms.aspx)_

## RecommendationsTemplate [Object Class] Name Prefix Code 

_**Template [Object Class] Name Prefix Code**_
- DEC Public ID 2663174v1.0
- Object Class = Any
- Property = Name (C25191)
- Prop. Qualifier = Prefix (C54066)
- Definition:  When there is a need to capture a
- prefix to a name with an Object Class other than Person, this template may be used to create new data element concepts.

_**Template [Object Class] Name Prefix Code**_
- CDE Public ID 2663176v1.0
- Definition:  When there is a need to capture a name prefix with an Object Class other than Person, this template may be used to create descriptive data elements.

_**Person Name Prefix Code**_
- VD Public ID 2179427v3.0
- Representation Term:  Code (C25162)
- Definition:  The codes that describes the title
- that precedes an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character
- Max length = 20
***Reused from DCP***

## ExampleParticipant Name Prefix Code 

_**Participant Name Prefix Code**_
- Public ID 2663178v1.0
- Object Class = Participant (C29867)
- Property = Name (C25191)
- Prop. Qualifier = Prefix (C54066)
- Definition:  An affix occurring before the beginning of a word or group of words indicating the identity of someone who takes part in an activity.

_**Participant Name Prefix Code**_
- Public ID 2663180v1.0
- Definition:  The codes that describes an affix occurring before the beginning of a word or group of words indicating the identity of someone who takes part in an activity.

_**Person Name Prefix Code**_
- Public ID 2179427v3.0
- Representation Term:  Code (C25162)
- Definition:  The code that describes the title
- that precedes an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character
- Max length = 20
***Reused from DCP***

## Recommendation DetailsTemplate [Object Class] US Military Rank Name Prefix Code

_**Template [Object Class] United States Military Rank Name Prefix**_
**New DEC 2665249v1.0**
- Object = Any
- Prop. Qualifier 1 = United States (C17234)
- Prop. Qualifier 2 = Military (C68638)
- Prop. Qualifier 3 = Rank (C48904)
- Prop. Qualifier 4 = Name (C25191)
- Property = Prefix (C54066)
- Definition:  When there is a need to capture the US uniformed services rank prefix with an Object Class other than Person, this template may be used to create descriptive Data Element Concepts by substituting a concept term for [Object Class] with the Property and Qualifiers, United States Military Rank Name Prefix (C17234:C68638:C48904:C42614:C54066).

_**Template [Object Class] United States Military Rank Name Prefix Code**_
**New CDE 2665357v1.0**
- Definition:  When there is a need to capture the US uniformed services rank prefix with an Object Class other than Person, this template may be used to create descriptive Data Element Concepts by substituting a concept term for [Object Class] with the Property and Qualifiers, United States Military Rank Person Name Prefix (C17234:C68638:C48904:C25191:C54066) and by reusing the current version of the standard Value Domain, United States Military Rank Prefix Code, Public ID 2665351.

_**United States Military Rank Name Prefix Code**_
**New VD Public ID 2665351v1.0**
- Representation Term: Code (C25162)
- Definition:  The abbreviations that represent the rank for personnel in the United States uniformed services as an affix occurring at or before the beginning of an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character (15)
- Permissible Values - **accessible by reference**

## ExampleParticipant US Military Rank Name Prefix Code 

_**Participant United States Military Rank Name Prefix Code**_
- Public ID: 2665375v1.0
- Definition:  The abbreviations that represent the rank for personnel in the United States uniformed services as an affix occurring at or before the beginning of a word or group of words for someone who takes part in an activity.

_**Participant United States Military Rank Name Prefix**_
- New DEC Public ID:  2665373v1.0** **
- Object = Participant
- Prop. Qualifier 1 = United States
- Prop. Qualifier 2 = Military
- Prop. Qualifier 3 = Rank
- Prop. Qualifier 4 = Name (C25191)
- Property = Prefix (C54066)
- Definition:  An affix occurring before the beginning of a word or group of words indicating the rank of an individual serving in the United States uniformed services who takes part in an activity.

_**United States Military Rank Name Prefix Code**_
- New VD Public ID 2665351v1.0
- Representation Term: Code (C25162)
- Definition:  The abbreviations that represent the rank for personnel in the United States uniformed services as an affix occurring at or before the beginning of an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character (15)
- Permissible Values - **accessible by reference**

## Suggested UML Guidance

- Goal is to provide reusable/searchable metadata for manual and automated curation methods
- Standardize CDEs from existing caDSR content
- Two acceptable UML models shown, in order of preference
- Highly recommended: UML model to fit proposed standard CDEs
- Acceptable: Use standard attribute and value domain if alternate class name is necessary

## UML Model Guidance(Highly Recommended)

**Person Name Prefix Code - 2663165 **** **
**Person United States Military Rank Name Prefix Code - 2665353**

**Map attributes to Standard CDEs**

**UML Model**

## UML Model Guidance(Acceptable)

**Include a Class in a model with any Class name and attribute namePrefix (C54066:C25191).  Map attribute to Value Domain Person Name Prefix Code  (Public ID 2179427).**

**[Object Class] Name Prefix Code**

**Object Class**
**- namePrefix (C25191:C54066)**

**UML Model**

**Use Template CDE to create new CDE from existing (Slides 13 and 15)**

## Discussion

**Questions**
**Next Steps/Action Items **
**Comments by email due 8/31**
**If no comments:  Propose to VCDE WS for Vote on 9/6**