description: This Observation provides the death date, death pronouncer, 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 derivation: constraint name: ObservationDeathDate type: Observation elements: 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] index: 5 valueDateTime: type: dateTime short: Date/Time of Death choiceOf: value index: 6 extensions: partialDateTime: {url: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/StructureDefinition/Extension-partial-date-time', min: 0, max: 1, type: Extension, 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, url: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/StructureDefinition/Extension-partial-date-time', index: 9} min: 0 max: 1 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: [valueDateTime] index: 16 valueDateTime: {type: dateTime, choiceOf: value, index: 17} required: [valueDateTime, value] placeOfDeath: match: code: coding: - {code: 58332-8, system: 'http://loinc.org'} schema: short: Place of Death index: 18 elements: code: pattern: type: CodeableConcept value: coding: - {code: 58332-8, system: 'http://loinc.org'} index: 19 value: choices: [valueCodeableConcept] index: 21 valueCodeableConcept: {type: CodeableConcept, choiceOf: value, index: 22} 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 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: short: Death Pronouncement Performer refers: ['http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-practitioner'] type: Reference mustSupport: true label: Death Pronouncement Performer index: 3 package_version: 1.0.0 class: profile kind: resource url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/mdi/StructureDefinition/Observation-death-date base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Observation version: 1.0.0 required: [status, subject]