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

Structure Definition

Location

Location.id

Location.meta

Location.meta.profile

VRDR-Death-Location

Location.name

Location.description

Location.type

Location.address

Location.physicalType

Element Bindings

Element Table

Requirements Traceability Mappings

Instance Example

Example Values

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>