Death Location

Death Location is a profile of the FHIR STU3 Location resource. It is used to convey the identity of the physical location that is the place where the decedent’s death occurred. It includes the name, description, and postal address of the place of death. The type of location is express as physical type – building, vehicle, road – and if death occurred in a hospital the type of service delivery location – inpatient, emergency, ambulatory.


UML Expression

vrdrdeathlocationUML


Structure Definition

id1..1
profile1..1Pattern
name1..1
description1..1
type1..1
address1..1
physicalType1..1


Element Bindings

Element Name Binding Type Binding Value Fixed Value Code System
physicalType Value Set Location-physical-type
type Value Set v3-ServiceDeliveryLocationRoleType

Element Table

Location..
Location.id1..1
Location.meta0..1
Location.meta.profile1..1
Location.name1..1
Location.description1..1
Location.type1..1
Location.address1..1
Location.physicalType1..1


Requirements Traceability Mappings

Element Path Reference Location Data Item
address Vital Records DAM 2.03 Facility postalAddress
address Death Certificate Item 16 City or Town, state, and zip
address Death Certificate Item 17 County of Death
address Standard Death Record IG SDR Decedent Profile Patient.extension:placeofdeath[postaladdress]
name Vital Records DAM 2.03 Facility facilityname [place of death]
name Death Certificate Item 15 Facility Name
name Standard Death Record IG SDR Decedent Profile Patient.extension:placeofdeath[facilityname]
physicalType Vital Records DAM 2.02 Event Location locationType
physicalType Death Certificate Item 14 Place of Death
physicalType Standard Death Record IG SDR Decedent Profile Patient.extension:placeofdeath[placeofdeathtype]

Instance Example

Example Values

Element Name Element Value
ID example-death-location
name Example Hospital
description Example Hospital Wing B
tye.code.system v3-RoleCode
type.code.code HOSP
type.code.display Hospital
address.line 8 Example Street
address.city Bedford
address.district Middlesex
address.state Massachusetts
address.postalCode 01730
address.country United States
physicalType.code.system location-physical-type
physicalType.code.code wa
physicalType.code.display Ward

Example XML Instance

<Location>
  <id value="example-death-location" />
  <name value="Example Hospital" />
  <description value="Example Hospital Wing B" />
  <type>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-ServiceDeliveryLocationRoleType" />
      <code value="HOSP" />
      <display value="Hospital" />
    </coding>
  </type>
  <address>
    <line value="8 Example Street" />
    <city value="Bedford" />
    <district value="Middlesex" />
    <state value="Massachusetts" />
    <postalCode value="01730" />
    <country value="United States" />
  </address>
  <physicalType>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/location-physical-type" />
      <code value="wa" />
      <display value="Ward" />
    </coding>
  </physicalType>
</Location>