Vital Records Death Reporting

This page is part of the Vital Records Mortality and Morbidity Reporting FHIR IG (v0.1.0: STU 1 Ballot 1) based on FHIR R3. The current version which supercedes this version is 2.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Disposition Location

Disposition Location is a profile of the FHIR STU3 Location resource. It is used to convey information ΓÇô name, postal address, and description ΓÇô of the place used to dispose of the decedentΓÇÖs bodily remains.

UML Expression

Structure Definition

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Element Bindings

Element Name	Binding Type	Binding Value	Fixed Value Code System
physicalType	Value Set	Location-physical-type
type	Value Set	v3-ServiceDeliveryLocationRoleType

Element Table

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Requirements Traceability Mappings

Element Path	Reference	Location	Data Item
address	Vital Records DAM	2.1.04 Decedent Disposition	dispositionLocationAddress
address	Death Certificate	Item 20	Place of Disposition
address	Standard Death Record IG	SDR Decedent Profile	Patient.extension:disposition[dispositionfacility]
name	Vital Records DAM	2.1.04 Decedent Disposition	dispositionLocationName
name	Death Certificate	Item 19	Place of Disposition
name	Standard Death Record IG	SDR Decedent Profile	Patient.extension:disposition[dispositionfacility]

Instance Example

<Location>
  <id value="example-disposition-location" />
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/VRDR-Disposition-Location" />
  </meta>
  <name value="Example disposition place name" />
  <address>
    <type value="postal" />
    <line value="100 Example Street" />
    <line value="Line 2" />
    <city value="Bedford" />
    <district value="Middlesex" />
    <state value="Massachusetts" />
    <postalCode value="01730" />
    <country value="United States" />
  </address>
</Location>