Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide
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ConceptMap: EducationLevel Concept Map

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

Usage:Clinical Focus: for IJE to FHIR alignment

A mapping between NCHS IJE and FHIR EducationLevel 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 Education Level

DRAFT. Published on 2023-10-17 18:39:37+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 EducationLevel Value Sets


Group 1Mapping from IJE to Education Level

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
1 (8th grade or less)ELEM (Elementary School)
2 (9th through 12th grade; no diploma)SEC (Some secondary or high school education)
3 (High School Graduate or GED Completed)HS (High School or secondary school degree complete)
4 (Some college credit, but no degree)SCOL (Some College education)
8 (Doctorate Degree or Professional Degree)POSTG (Doctoral or post graduate education)

Group 2Mapping from IJE to degreeLicenseCertificate

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
5 (Associate Degree)AA (Associate of Arts)
6 (Bachelor's Degree)BA (Bachelor of Arts)
7 (Master's Degree)MA (Master of Arts)

Group 3Mapping from IJE to NullFlavor

Source CodeRelationshipTarget Code
9 (Unknown)UNK (unknown)