Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide
3.0.0 - STU3 US

Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 3.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/vrdr/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

ValueSet: Manner of Death ValueSet

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/ValueSet/vrdr-manner-of-death-vs Version: 3.0.0
Standards status: Draft Computable Name: MannerOfDeathVS
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.10.48.15

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A set of code used to indicate a classification of the manner of death.

Mapping to IJE codes here.

References

Changes since version true:

  • New Content

    • Logical Definition (CLD)

     

    Expansion

    Expansion from tx.fhir.org based on SNOMED CT United States edition 01-Sep 2025

    This value set contains 6 concepts

    SystemCodeDisplay (en)InactivestatusJSONXML
    http://snomed.info/sct  38605008Natural death
    http://snomed.info/sct  7878000Accidental death
    http://snomed.info/sct  44301001Suicide
    http://snomed.info/sct  27935005Homicide
    http://snomed.info/sct  185973002Patient awaiting investigationinactiveinactive
    http://snomed.info/sct  65037004Undetermined manner of death

    Description of the above table(s).