Death Certificate Reference

Death Certificate Reference is a profile of the FHIR STU3 DocumentReference resource. A DocumentReference resource is used to index a document, clinical note, and other binary objects to make them available to a healthcare system. The death certificate is the target document of the death certificate reference. The use case for document reference is the need to maintain document identifiers assigned by interested parties that differ from the identifier assigned by the custodial jurisdictional agency.

UML Expression

Structure Definition

http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/VRDR-Death-Certificate-Reference

{
  "coding": [
    {
      "code": "\"64297-5\""
    }
  ]
}

VRDR Decedent

VRDR Interested Party

VRDR Death Certificate

Element Bindings

Element Table

Instance Example

<DocumentReference>
  <id value="example-death-certificate-reference" />
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/VRDR-Death-Certificate-Reference" />
  </meta>
  <identifier>
    <value value="1234567890" />
  </identifier>
  <status value="current" />
  <type>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://loinc.org" />
      <code value="64297-5" />
    </coding>
  </type>
  <subject>
    <reference value="example-decedent" />
  </subject>
  <indexed value="0001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00" />
  <author>
    <reference value="example-interested-party" />
  </author>
</DocumentReference>