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: MethodOfDisposition Concept Map

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/ConceptMap/MethodOfDispositionCM Version: 3.0.0-ballot
Draft as of 2024-04-05 Computable Name: MethodOfDisposition
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.10.18.13

Usage:Clinical Focus: for IJE to FHIR alignment

A mapping between NCHS IJE and FHIR MethodOfDisposition Value Sets

To help implementers map from IJE to FHIR Vocabulary

Mapping from (not specified) to Method of Disposition 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 MethodOfDisposition Value Sets


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

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
B (Burial)is equivalent to449971000124106 (Burial)
C (Cremation)is equivalent to449961000124104 (Cremation)
D (Donation)is equivalent to449951000124101 (Donation)
E (Entombment)is equivalent to449931000124108 (Entombment)
R (Removal from State)is equivalent to449941000124103 (Removal from State)

Group 2 Mapping from Placeholder Code System for IJE in Vital Records to NullFlavor

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
O (Other)is equivalent toOTH (other)
U (Unknown)is equivalent toUNK (unknown)