Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide
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This page is part of the Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR Implementation Guide (v3.0.0-ballot: STU 3 Ballot 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 2.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

ConceptMap: MannerOfDeath Concept Map

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/ConceptMap/MannerOfDeathCM Version: 3.0.0-ballot
Draft as of 2024-04-05 Computable Name: MannerOfDeath
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.10.18.12

Usage:Clinical Focus: for IJE to FHIR alignment

A mapping between NCHS IJE and FHIR MannerOfDeath Value Sets

To help implementers map from IJE to FHIR Vocabulary

Mapping from (not specified) to Manner of Death ValueSet

DRAFT. Published on 2024-04-05 15:54:34+0000 by HL7 International / Public Health (HL7 International / Public Health: http://www.hl7.org/Special/com..., pher@lists.HL7.org).

A mapping between NCHS IJE and FHIR MannerOfDeath Value Sets


Group 1 Mapping from Placeholder Code System for IJE in Vital Records to SNOMED CT (all versions)

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
N (Natural)is equivalent to38605008 (Natural death)
A (Accident)is equivalent to7878000 (Accidental death)
S (Suicide)is equivalent to44301001 (Suicide)
H (Homicide)is equivalent to27935005 (Homicide)
P (Pending Investigation)is equivalent to185973002 (Patient awaiting investigation)
C (Could not be determined)is equivalent to65037004 (Death, manner undetermined)