# Presentation: 469650

## Person Name Prefix Abbreviation TextFinal Recommendations

**Person Name Prefix Abbreviation Text****Final Recommendations**

**VCDE Small Group**
**Mary Cooper, Kristel Dobratz, Rakesh Nagarajan, Linda Schmandt, Grace Stafford and Lynne Wilkens**
**10/18/2007**

## 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

## Proposed Components for Standardization

- New data element concept - Person Name Prefix
- Reuse DCP value domain with modifications to create new from existing - Name Prefix Abbreviation Text
**New data element – Person Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**
- New data element concept –
- 	Person US Military Rank Name Prefix
- New non-enumerated value domain with referenced list of values from Department of Defense
**New data element – **
**	****Person US Military Rank Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**

## caBIGTM Review Comments/Responses

**Comments were received during caBIG****TM**** review period:**
- Value meaning description/definition
- Proposed templates
- Variety of names given by study participants
- Coordination of representation terms with Suffix CDE recommendations
**Changes made in response to comments:**
- Submitted new definition to EVS
- Removed template CDEs
- Referred comments to CDE Leadership small group
- Created new value domains

## Recommendation DetailsPerson Name Prefix Abbreviation Text

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

_**Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**_
- New VD = Public ID 2689307v1.0
- Representation Term: Text (C25704)
- Definition:  The abbreviation that represents an affix occurring at or before the beginning of an individual's name.
- Data Type = Character
- Max length = 20

_**Person Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**_
**New CDE 2663165v1.0**
- Definition:  The abbreviation that represents an affix occurring at or before the beginning of an individual's name.

**Data Element Concept**

**Value Domain**

**Data Element**

## Recommendation DetailsName Prefix Abbreviation Text - Permissible Values

| 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 or practices medicine. |
| 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. |
| Sr. | Sister | C48649 | A courtesy title for a member of a religious order, fraternity, movement, the nursing profession, or other group. |

## Recommendation DetailsPerson US Military Rank Name Prefix Abbreviation Text

_**Person United States Military Rank Name Prefix**_
- New DEC 2665349v1.0
- Object = Person (C25190)
- Prop. Qualifier 1 = United States (C17234)
- Prop. Qualifier 2 = Military (C68638)
- Prop. Qualifier 3 = Rank (C48904)
- Prop. Qualifier 4 = Name (C42614)
- 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. [Explanatory comment: Includes all U.S. armed services and Public Health Commissioned Corps.]

_**Person United States Military Rank Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**_
**New CDE 2665353v1.0**
- Definition: The abbreviation 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. [Explanatory comment: Includes all U.S. armed services and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.]

_**United States Military Rank Name Prefix Abbreviation Text**_
- New VD Public ID 2665351v1.0
- Representation Term: Text (C25704)
- Definition:  The abbreviation that represents 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**

## Recommendation DetailsReferences for US Military Ranks

**Non-enumerated VD with list of values by reference**
- Department of Defense Source - _[http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html](http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.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)__ _

## Suggested UML Guidance

- Goal is to provide reusable/searchable metadata for manual and automated curation methods
- Standardize CDEs from existing caDSR content
- Highly recommended: UML model to fit proposed standard CDEs

## 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**

## Next Steps

**Questions/comments?**
**VCDE WS vote to adopt **