description: This Observation provides the death date and date pronounced dead. If the actual date of death is known, set value to type dateTime. If the date of death is not known, and a range is known, set value to type Period.\nThe MDI Observation - Death Date artifact overlaps with the VRDR Death Date artifact. package_name: hl7.fhir.us.mdi.r4 derivation: constraint name: ObservationDeathDate type: Observation elements: value[x]: extensions: partialDateTime: {url: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/PartialDateTime', min: 0, max: 1, type: Extension, short: 'The expectation is to send a value in addition to the extension, whenever possible. Use a data absent reason for anything not known.', index: 9} elements: extension: index: 8 slicing: rules: open ordered: false discriminator: - {path: url, type: value} min: null slices: partialDateTime: match: {url: null} schema: {type: Extension, short: 'The expectation is to send a value in addition to the extension, whenever possible. Use a data absent reason for anything not known.', url: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/StructureDefinition/PartialDateTime', index: 9} min: 0 max: 1 method: short: Codes that describe the approach to establishing a date. binding: {strength: extensible, valueSet: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/ValueSet/ValueSet-date-establishment-approach'} mustSupport: true index: 11 value: short: Date/Time of Death choices: [valueDateTime, valuePeriod] index: 5 valueDateTime: {type: dateTime, short: Date/Time of Death, choiceOf: value, index: 6} component: index: 12 slicing: rules: open discriminator: - {path: code, type: value} min: null slices: datetimePronouncedDead: match: code: coding: - {code: 80616-6, system: 'http://loinc.org'} schema: short: Date/Time Pronounced Dead index: 13 elements: code: pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 80616-6, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 14 value: choices: [valueTime, valueDateTime] index: 16 valueTime: {type: time, choiceOf: value, index: 17} valueDateTime: {type: dateTime, choiceOf: value, index: 18} required: [valueDateTime, value, valueTime] placeOfDeath: match: code: coding: - {code: 58332-8, system: 'http://loinc.org'} schema: short: Place of Death index: 19 elements: code: pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 58332-8, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 20 value: choices: [valueCodeableConcept] index: 22 valueCodeableConcept: {type: CodeableConcept, choiceOf: value, index: 23} required: [value, valueCodeableConcept] note: {short: 'Notes about the actual or presumed date of death, e.g., the date of death can''t be specified as a dateTime and can only be narrowed down to a decade', mustSupport: true, index: 10} status: {mustSupport: true, index: 0} code: short: Date+time of death mustSupport: true pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 81956-5, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 1 valuePeriod: {type: Period, short: Date/Time of Death, choiceOf: value, index: 7} subject: short: The decedent refers: ['http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-patient'] type: Reference mustSupport: true label: The decedent index: 2 performer: type: Reference short: Death certifier mustSupport: true refers: ['http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-practitioner'] index: 3 package_version: 1.1.0 class: profile kind: resource url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/StructureDefinition/Observation-death-date base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Observation version: 1.1.0 required: [subject]