description: The Observation - Cause of Death Part 1 profile reflects the ordered causes of death asserted by the death certifier. The cause of death is initially specified with text.\nThe MDI Observation - Cause of Death Part 1 artifact overlaps with the VRDR Cause Of Death Part 1 artifact. package_name: hl7.fhir.us.mdi.r4 derivation: constraint name: ObservationCauseOfDeathPart1 type: Observation elements: code: label: Cause of death [US Standard Certificate of Death] short: Cause of death [US Standard Certificate of Death] mustSupport: true pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 69453-9, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 0 subject: type: Reference label: The decedent short: The decedent mustSupport: true refers: ['http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-patient'] index: 1 performer: type: Reference short: Death certifier mustSupport: true refers: ['http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-practitioner'] index: 2 value: mustSupport: true choices: [valueCodeableConcept] index: 4 valueCodeableConcept: {type: CodeableConcept, mustSupport: true, choiceOf: value, index: 5} value[x]: elements: text: {short: 'Cause of Death Part 1, Line a,b,c,d', maxLength: 120, mustSupport: true, index: 6} required: [text] component: index: 7 slicing: rules: open discriminator: - {path: code, type: value} min: 1 slices: lineNumber: match: code: coding: - {code: lineNumber, system: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/CodeSystem/CodeSystem-local-component-codes'} schema: short: lineNumber mustSupport: true _required: true index: 8 elements: code: mustSupport: true pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: lineNumber, system: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/CodeSystem/CodeSystem-local-component-codes'} index: 9 value: mustSupport: true choices: [valueInteger] index: 11 valueInteger: {type: integer, mustSupport: true, choiceOf: value, index: 12} required: [value, valueInteger] interval: match: code: coding: - {code: 69440-6, system: 'http://loinc.org'} schema: short: Cause of Death Part 1 Interval, Line a,b,c,d mustSupport: true _required: true index: 14 elements: code: short: Disease onset to death interval mustSupport: true pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 69440-6, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 15 value: mustSupport: true choices: [valueString, valueQuantity] index: 17 valueString: {short: Interval - string description, maxLength: 20, index: 20} valueQuantity: {short: Interval - quantity with units of time, index: 21} required: [valueString, value, valueQuantity] package_version: 1.1.0 class: profile kind: resource url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/StructureDefinition/Observation-cause-of-death-part1 base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Observation version: 1.1.0 required: [component, value, subject, valueCodeableConcept, performer]