Tag(0010,0030)
KeywordPatientBirthDate
VRDA
VM1
What it holds
Date of birth in YYYYMMDD format.
In migrations and validation
A strong secondary key for patient matching, and a common source of mismatches: placeholder dates such as 19000101, swapped day and month from manual entry, and blanks. In de-identification it is one of the HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers; only the year may remain (with ages over 89 aggregated).
Related tags
- Patient's Name (0010,0010): PatientName, PN
- Patient's Age (0010,1010): PatientAge, AS
More patient tags
- Patient ID (0010,0020)
- Issuer of Patient ID (0010,0021)
- Other Patient IDs Sequence (0010,1002)
- Patient's Sex (0010,0040)
Tag, keyword, VR and VM per the DICOM standard, PS3.6 data dictionary. Notes by DICOMATICS. Looking for another tag? Use the DICOM tag lookup.