The Decedent’s Education Level resource represents the highest level of education achieved by the decedent. The VRDR Decedent’s Education Level profile builds upon the FHIR Observation resource.

The Decedent Age resource represents the decedent’s chronological age at the time of death. Age is derived as the difference in time between the decedent’s death date and birth date. The VRDR Decedent Age profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation Resource.

The Decedent’s Mother resource represents the maternal parent of the decedent. The VRDR Decedent Mother profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Related Person resource.

The Decedent Spouse resource represents the surviving spouse of the decedent. The VRDR Decedent Spouse profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Related Person resource.

The Birth Record Identifier resource is a reference to a birth record used as a linkage. The VRDR Birth Record Identifier profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Decedent Usual Work resource is used to convey the usual work industry and occupation of the decedent. The base profile is lifted directly out of the Occupational Data for Health (ODH), Release 1.0 FHIR Implementation Guide (http://hl7.org/fhir/us/odh/).

The Decedent Military Service resource is used to convey whether the decedent was ever in the US armed forces. The VRDR Decedent Military Service profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Decedent’s Father resource represents the paternal parent of the decedent. The VRDR Decedent Father profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Related Person resource.

The decedent resource represents the deceased person that is the subject of the vital record death report. The VRDR Decedent profile builds upon the US-Core Patient profile.

The Examiner Contacted resource represents an indication as to whether a medical examiner (or coroner) was contacted to conduct an investigation and certify the causes of death. The VRDR Examiner Contacted profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Decedent Pregnancy resource provides an indication of the pregnancy status of the decedent. The VRDR Decedent Pregnancy profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Decedent Transportation Role resource is used to specify the role of the decedent (e.g. driver, passenger, pedestrian, other) in a transportation-related injury. The VRDR Decedent Transportation Role profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Tobacco Use Contributed To Death resource represents the conclusion arrived at during death investigation regarding the extent to which tobacco use contributed to the death of the decedent. The VRDR Tobacco Use Contributed To Death profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Injury Location resource represents the general place (such as restaurant, vacant lot, or home) where a decedent’s death-related injury occurred. The VRDR Injury Location profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Location resource.

The Autopsy Performed Indicator profile provides an indication as to whether an autopsy was performed and if so, indicates whether the results of the autopsy are available. The Autopsy Performed Indicator profile builds upon the FHIR Observation resource.

The Death Location resource represents the decedent’s place of death. The VRDR Death Location profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Location resource.

The Death Pronouncement Performer resource represents the health practitioner that declared the decedent dead. The VRDR Death Pronouncement Performer profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Practitioner resouce.

The Injury Incident resource represents observations (time, location, and work or transportation-related), discovered regarding an injury event during a death investigation. The VRDR Injury Incident profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Death Date resource is used to convey the actual or presumed date of death for the decedent. If the date of death unable to be determined then the date the decedent’s remains were discovered serves as a surrogate for the death date. The VRDR Death Date resource profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource. The date the decedent was pronounced dead is included as a component of the death date observation.

The Interested Party resource represents a business entity that assigns one or more identifiers to a death certificate document. Assigning authorities for death certificate identifiers include coroners and medical examiners, local and state public health agencies, and the national center for health statistics. The VRDR Interested Party profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Organization resource.

The Manner of Death resource represents the conclusion arrived at upon completion of death investigation regarding the manner of death (eg., natural, homicide, suicide, accident, …). The VRDR Manner of Death profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Cause Of Death Condition resource represents a clinically relevant condition –disease, injury, or complication– in the causal pathway of events that directly caused the death. The VRDR Cause of Death Condition profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Condition resource.

The Certifier resource represents the practitioner (coroner, medical examiner, or physician) who certifies death, the manner of death, and the causes of death. The VRDR Cerfifier profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Practitioner resource.

The Condition Contributing To Death resource represents a significant condition contributing to death but not resulting in the underlying cause. The VRDR Condition Contributing To Death profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Condition resource.

The Death Certificate resource represents the body of the death certificate document that lays in order to the bundle of resources comprising the death certificate document. The VRDR Death Certificate profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Composition resource.

The Death Certificate Document resource is the bundle of resources that comprise the death certificate. The VRDR Death Certificate Document profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Bundle resource.

The Death Certification resource represents the act of certifying death. The VRDR Death Certification profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Procedure resource.

The Cause of Death Pathway resource documents the ordered chain conditions in the causal pathway chain of events with a causal relationship to the decedent’s death. The VRDR Cause of Death Pathway profile builds upon the FHIR R4 List resource.

The Death Certificate Reference resource enables interested parties to assign local identifiers to the death certificate document. The Death Certificate Reference profile builds upon the FHIR Document Reference resource.

The Disposition Location resource represents the place/location where the decedent’s remains were disposed of. The VRDR Disposition Location profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Location resource.

The Funeral Home resource represents the business entity conducting ceremony connected with the final disposition of the decedent’s remains, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. The VRDR Funeral Home profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Organization resource.

The Mortician resource represents the professional practitioner preceding over the funeral services involved in the disposition of the decedent’s remains. The VRDR Mortician profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Practitioner resource.

The Decedent Disposition Method resource specifies the means by which the decedent’s remains were disposed of. The VRDR Decedent Disposition Method profile builds upon the FHIR R4 Observation resource.

The Funeral Service Licensee resource represents the professional practitioner affiliated with the funeral home that has met the requirements to be a funeral director and/or an embalmer. The VRDR Funeral Service Licensee profile builds upon the FHIR R4 PractitionerRole resource.

The Within City Limits Indicator resource is an extension to the FHIR Address Datatype. It is used to indicate if the decedent’s residential address is a location within the limits of the address city.

Observation Location is an extension of the FHIR Observation resource. It is the location of the observed phenomenon or entity that is the subject of the observation. Use to enable the specification of locations such as the location of injury, the location of death, and the location of disposition.

An extension intended for use in an FHIR Location resource to identify the national case reporting jurisdiction under which the location falls. The jurisdiction identifier can be express as a string or as a code value from the PHVS_USVitalRecordsJurisdictions_NCHS value set.

This extension enables an incomplete date to be expressed with reasons provided for missing date components.

An extension used to indicate the rationale behind the inclusion of data values that bypass edit criteria for the resource element.

The address city code extension is used to enable the city portion of address to be expressed as a numeric value in accordance with the NCHS Instruction Manual Part 8, Vital Records Geographic Classification, 2014 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/IMP8_2014.pdf).

An extension used to indicate the ethnicity of a decedent.

An extension used to indicate the decedent’s race categories.

A subset of code values (0 and 1) use to indicate the outcome of data validation assessment for unusual data values.

A subset of code values (0, 1, 2, and 4) use to indicate the outcome of data validation assessment for unusual data values.

A subset of code values (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4) use to indicate the outcome of data validation assessment for unusual data values.

A subset of code values (0, 1, and 2) use to indicate the outcome of data validation assessment for unusual data values.

A value set of educational milestones used to identify the highest level of education achieved by the decedent.

The set of codes used to indicate the marital status of the decedent.

The gender of a person used for administrative purposes.

A set of codes used to express an affirmative response (Yes), negative response (No), or indicate that a response is not applicable (NA) with regard to the question posed.

A set of codes used to express an affirmative response (Yes), negative response (No), or indicate that an applicable response is not known (Unknown) with regard to the question posed.

A set of codes used to indicate a manner of death classification.

Code values reflecting the death location of the decedent (e.g., hospital, home, hospice).

The set of codes used to indicate the method used to dispose of the decedents remains.

A set of code values used to indicate the reason decedent race data is absent.

A set of codes used to express an affirmative response (Yes), negative response (No), or indicate that a response is not applicable (NA) or unknown (UNK) with regard to the question posed.

A set of codes indicating the role of the decedent in an injury involving a transportation vehicle.

Instance example of the Autopsy Performed Indicator resource profile. This example indicates that an autopsy was performed and that the results of the autopsy are available.

An instance example of the VRDR Decedent resource profile. Mr. Example Last, a White, Native Hawaiian, Hispanic male born 1940-02-19 and residing in Middlesex, MA.

An instance example of the Birth Record Identifier resource profile. In this example Birth Record identifier 4242123 denotes Massachusetts and 1940 as the birthplace and birth year of the decedent.

An instance example of a Certifier resource profile. This example is a certifying physician.

An instance example of a Death Certification resource profile. This example Death Certification procedure performed by a physician on 2019-01-29.

An instance example of the Interested Party resource profile. In the example, Example Hospital from MA is an active Healthcare Provider interested party.

An instance example of the VRDR-Condition-Contributing-To-Death resource profile. In this example, the condition is noted as text only. This is typical of a death record outbound from a jurisdictional EDRS to the NCHS.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Age resource profile. In this example, the decedent is identified as 79 years in age.

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Date resource profile. In this example, the date and time of death is 2018-02-20T16:48:06-05:00. The Date and time pronounced dead is also 2018-02-20T16:48:06-05:00.

An instance example of the VRDR-Injury-Location resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Tobacco-Use-Contributed-To-Death resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Examiner-Contacted resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Pregnancy resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Disposition-Method resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Mortician resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Military-Service

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Education-Level resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Mother resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Spouse example.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Father resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Manner-of-Death resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Cause-Of-Death-Condition resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Cause-of-Death-Pathway resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Funeral-Home resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Funeral-Service-Licensee resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Certificate resource profile.

Instance example of the VRDR-Disposition-Location resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Transportation-Role resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-InjuryIncident resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Decedent-Usual-Work resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Pronouncement-Performer resource profile

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Certificate-Document resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Certificate-Reference resource profile.

An instance example of the VRDR-Death-Location resource profile.