This page is part of the Bidirectional Services eReferrals (BSeR) (v0.2.0: STU 1 on FHIR STU3 Ballot 2) based on FHIR R3. The current version which supercedes this version is 1.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions 
Decedent Age is a profile of the FHIR stu3 Observation resource. It is used to communicate the decedent's chronological age at the time of death. When present, the effective date of this observation shall be equal to the decedent's date of death. Age (Observation.valueQuantity.value) is derived as the difference in time between the decedent's death date and birth date. When age is less than or equal to one day then unit shall be "minutes", when age is less than or equal to one year then unit shall be "days", otherwise unit shall be "years".
| Observation | Observation | ||
| id | 0..1 | ||
| meta | 0..1 | ||
| profile | 1..1 | ||
| status | 1..1 | codeFixed Value | |
| category | 0..* | CodeableConceptFixed Value | |
| code | 1..1 | CodeableConceptFixed Value | |
| subject | 1..1 | Reference(Patient | Group | Device | Location) | |
| effective[x] | 0..1 | ||
| effectiveDateTime | |||
| value[x] | 1..1 | ||
| valueQuantity | |||
| dataAbsentReason | 0..1 | CodeableConceptBinding | |
| coding | 1..1 | ||
| code | 1..1 |
| Element Name | Binding Type | Binding Value | Fixed Value Code System |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | Fixed Value | "laboratory" | observation-category |
| code | Fixed Value | "4548-4" | LOINC |
| dataAbsentReason | Value Set | observation-valueabsentreason | |
| status | Fixed Value | "Final" | observation-status |
| subject | Reference | BSeR Patient |
| Observation | .. | |
| Observation.id | 0..1 | |
| Observation.meta | 0..1 | |
| Observation.meta.profile | 1..1 | |
| Observation.status | code | 1..1 |
| Observation.category | CodeableConcept | 0..* |
| Observation.code | CodeableConcept | 1..1 |
| Observation.subject | Reference(Patient | Group | Device | Location) | 1..1 |
| Observation.effective[x] | 0..1 | |
| Observation.effectiveDateTime:effectiveDateTime | .. | |
| Observation.value[x] | 1..1 | |
| Observation.valueQuantity:valueQuantity | .. | |
| Observation.dataAbsentReason | CodeableConcept | 0..1 |
| Observation.dataAbsentReason.coding | 1..1 | |
| Observation.dataAbsentReason.coding.code | 1..1 |
