Cause Of Death Condition

Cause Of Death Condition is a profile of the FHIR STU3 Condition resource. It is used to convey a condition (disease, injury, or complication) contributing to the cause of death. A cause of death is one in an ordered list of caused in a cause of death pathway. The cause of death is initially conveyed as a free text description and sent to the NCHS to be encoded. The final death certificate includes the NCHS assigned code as well as the original free text description. The cause of death condition also includes a timing expression used to convey the interval of time between onset of the condition and death.

UML Expression

Structure Definition

http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/-VRDR-Cause-Of-Death-Condition

VRDR Decedent

VRDR Certifier

Element Bindings

Element Table

Requirements Traceability Mappings

Instance Example

<Condition>
  <id value="example-cause-of-death-condition" />
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/-VRDR-Cause-Of-Death-Condition" />
  </meta>
  <text>
    <status value="additional" />
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Acute transmural myocardial infarction of anterior wall</div>
  </text>
  <code>
    <coding>
      <system value="ICD-10" />
      <code value="I21.0" />
      <display value="Acute transmural myocardial infarction of anterior wall" />
    </coding>
  </code>
  <subject>
    <reference value="example-decedent" />
  </subject>
  <onsetString value="minutes" />
  <asserter>
    <reference value="example-practitioner" />
  </asserter>
</Condition>