Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide
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Mortality Roster Data Dictionary

Mortality Roster Data Dictionary

# Description Roster Name IJE Name Profile Field Type Value Set
8 Date of Death–Month DOD_MO   DeathDate value dateTime See PartialDatesAndTimes
9 Date of Death–Day DOD_DY   DeathDate value dateTime See PartialDatesAndTimes
10 Date of Death–Year DOD_YR   DeathDate value dateTime Required for processing
6 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Death - literal STATETEXT_D   DeathLocation address.state (expanded from 2 letter code) string -
7 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Death - code DSTATE   DeathLocation address.state or address.state.extension[nationalReportingJurisdictionId ] codeable StatesTerritoriesProvincesVS or JurisdictionVS
30 Death Country - Code DCOUNTRYC DTHCOUNTRYCD DeathLocation address.country string ResidenceCountryVS. Note: For US Death certificates should be US.
1 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Birth - literal STATEBTH   Decedent extension[patient-birthPlace].value[x].state or extension[patient-birthPlace].value[x].state.extension[ nationalReportingJurisdictionId] if present (expanded from 2 letter code) string See StateLiterals
2 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Birth - code BPLACE_ST   Decedent extension[patient-birthPlace].value[x].state or extension[patient-birthPlace].value[x].state.extension[ nationalReportingJurisdictionId] if present string JurisdictionsProvincesVS
3 Decedent’s Legal Name–Given GNAME   Decedent name.given , name.use = official string -
4 Decedent’s Legal Name–Middle MIDNAME   Decedent name.given , name.use = official (first letter) string -
5 Decedent’s Legal Name–Last LNAME   Decedent name.family , name.use = official string -
11 Date of Birth–Month DOB_MO   Decedent birthDate dateTime See PartialDatesAndTimes
12 Date of Birth–Day DOB_DY   Decedent birthDate dateTime See PartialDatesAndTimes
13 Date of Birth–Year DOB_YR   Decedent birthDate dateTime See PartialDatesAndTimes
14 Sex SEX   Decedent extension[NVSS-SexAtDeath] codeable AdministrativeGenderVS
22 Decedent’s Suffix SUFF   Decedent name.suffix , name.use = official string -
26 Decedent’s Maiden Name DMAIDEN   Decedent name.text , name.use=maiden string  
27 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Decedent’s Residence - literal STATETEXT_R   Decedent address.state (expanded from 2 letter code) string See StateLiterals
28 State, U.S. Territory or Canadian Province of Decedent’s Residence - code STATEC   Decedent address.state string StatesTerritoriesProvincesVS
29 Birthplace Country - Code BPLACE_CT BIRTPHPLACE_CNT Decedent extension[patient-birthPlace].value[x].country string BirthplaceCountryVS.
31 Decedent’s Residence Country - Code COUNTRYC   Decedent address.country string ResidenceCountryVS
32 Decedent’s SSN (may be used by some jurisdictions when allowed by law, to match with the SSN contained with the birth record) SSN   Decedent identifier.value where system = ‘http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-ssn and type.coding.code=”SB” string -
16 Father’s First Name DADFNAME DDADF DecedentFather name.given , name.use = official string -
17 Father’s Middle Name DADMIDNAME DDADMID DecedentFather name.given , name.use = official string -
18 Father’s Surname DADLNAME FLNAME DecedentFather name.family string -
23 Father’s Suffix DADSUFF FATHERSUFFIX DecedentFather name.suffix , name.use = official string -
19 Mother’s Given Name MOMGNAME DMOMF DecedentMother name.given , name.use = official string -
20 Mother’s Middle Name MOMMIDNAME DMOMMID DecedentMother name.given , name.use = official string -
21 Mother’s Maiden Surname MOMMAIDNAME DMOMMDN DecedentMother name.family , name.type=maiden string -
24 Mother’s Suffix MOMSUFF MOTHERSUFFIX DecedentMother name.suffix , name.use = official string -
NA Death Record Identifier NO IJE MAPPING   MortalityRosterBundle identifier.value string(12) YYYYJJNNNNNN, YYYY = death year JJ = jurisdiction and NNNNNN = certificate number
15 State File Number FILENO   MortalityRosterBundle identifier.extension[ certificateNumber].value string(6) -
33 Alias Record Flag ALIAS   MortalityRosterBundle meta.extension[aliasStatus].value boolean  
34 Replacement Record Flag REPLACE   MortalityRosterBundle meta.extension[replaceStatus].value codeable ReplaceStatusVS