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 (v2.2.0: STU 2) based on FHIR R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

ConceptMap: UnitsOfAge Concept Map

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/ConceptMap/UnitsOfAgeCM Version: 2.2.0
Draft as of 2023-10-17 Computable Name: UnitsOfAge

Usage:Clinical Focus: for IJE to FHIR alignment

A mapping between NCHS IJE and FHIR UnitsOfAge Value Sets

To help implementers map from IJE to FHIR Vocabulary.

Note: The codesystem identifer ‘IJE’ is not a proper codesystem URI.
Work is underway to define proper URIs that will be included in future versions of this concept map.

Mapping from (not specified) to Units of Age

DRAFT. Published on 2023-10-17 19:11:31+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 UnitsOfAge Value Sets


Group 1Mapping from IJE to Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
1 (Years)a (Years)
2 (Months)mo (Months)
4 (Days)d (Days)
5 (Hours)h (Hours)
6 (Minutes)min (Minutes)

Group 2Mapping from IJE to NullFlavor

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
9 (Unknown - not classifiable)UNK (Unknown)