Patient's Age (0010,1010)

What it holds

Age at the time of the study, as a number plus a unit: 045Y, 018M, 003W, 010D.

In migrations and validation

Often kept in research datasets instead of birth date because it carries less identifying information. Under Safe Harbor, ages over 89 must be aggregated into a single 90-or-older category.

Related tags

• Patient's Birth Date (0010,0030): PatientBirthDate, DA

More patient tags

• Patient's Name (0010,0010)
• Patient ID (0010,0020)
• Issuer of Patient ID (0010,0021)
• Other Patient IDs Sequence (0010,1002)

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.