Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR Implementation Guide - Local Development build (v1.1.0). See the Directory of published versions

Death Investigation Resource Profiles

B. Death Investigation: is a profile group comprised of profiles containing data obtained during the course of investigating a death. Many of these items are conditionally present in a death certification transaction depending on whether or not an autopy was performed, an injury incident occurred, or a transportation event was involved.

The following tables indicates tracibility between death investigation resource profile elements and data items on the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death data collection form.