| DESCRIPTION |
The MASTER MARITAL STATUS file (#11.99) contains the standard set of
permitted. Use of locally defined fields that were created prior to the
VHA Directive's 2005-044 effective date shall not be supported.
marital statuses from the HL7 Standards Development Organization (SDO).
Per VHA Directive 2005-044, this file has been "locked down" by Data
Standardization (DS). The file definition (i.e. data dictionary) shall
not be modified. All additions, changes and deletions to entries in the
file shall be done by Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT) using the
Master File Server (MFS), provided by Common Services (CS).
Creating and/or editing locally defined fields in the file are not
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