Fact of Death Exchange FHIR Implementation Guide
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Fact of Death Exchange FHIR Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International - Public Health Work Group. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.2.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/shpringman/fhir-fod/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: Fact of Death Correction Message - XML Representation

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<MessageDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="fod-correction"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: MessageDefinition fod-correction</b></p><a name="fod-correction"> </a><a name="hcfod-correction"> </a><p><b>url</b>: <a href="MessageDefinition-fod-correction.html">MessageDefinition Fact of Death Correction Message</a></p><p><b>version</b>: 0.2.0</p><p><b>name</b>: FODCorrectionMessage</p><p><b>title</b>: Fact of Death Correction Message</p><p><b>status</b>: Draft</p><p><b>experimental</b>: false</p><p><b>date</b>: 2026-08-07</p><p><b>publisher</b>: HL7 International - Public Health Work Group</p><p><b>contact</b>: <a href="http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pher">http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pher</a></p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>A notification that corrects content previously conveyed for the same death record, for example a revised date or place of death, or corrected decedent demographics. A correction carries the complete current content rather than only the changed elements, and its Provenance.recorded establishes that it is later than the notification it corrects.</p>
</div><p><b>jurisdiction</b>: <span title="Codes:{urn:iso:std:iso:3166 US}">United States of America</span></p><p><b>event</b>: <a href="CodeSystem-fod-notification-event-cs.html#fod-notification-event-cs-fact-of-death-correction">Fact of Death Notification Event Codes: fact-of-death-correction</a> (Fact of Death Correction)</p><p><b>category</b>: Notification</p><blockquote><p><b>focus</b></p><p><b>code</b>: Observation</p><p><b>profile</b>: <a href="StructureDefinition-fod-death-date.html">Fact of Death Death Date</a></p><p><b>min</b>: 1</p><p><b>max</b>: 1</p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>focus</b></p><p><b>code</b>: Patient</p><p><b>profile</b>: <a href="StructureDefinition-fod-decedent.html">Fact of Death Decedent</a></p><p><b>min</b>: 1</p><p><b>max</b>: 1</p></blockquote></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/MessageDefinition/fod-correction"/>
  <version value="0.2.0"/>
  <name value="FODCorrectionMessage"/>
  <title value="Fact of Death Correction Message"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2026-08-07"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International - Public Health Work Group"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pher"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="A notification that corrects content previously conveyed for the same death record, for example a revised date or place of death, or corrected decedent demographics. A correction carries the complete current content rather than only the changed elements, and its Provenance.recorded establishes that it is later than the notification it corrects."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <eventCoding>
    <system
            value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/CodeSystem/fod-notification-event-cs"/>
    <code value="fact-of-death-correction"/>
  </eventCoding>
  <category value="notification"/>
  <focus>
    <code value="Observation"/>
    <profile
             value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/StructureDefinition/fod-death-date"/>
    <min value="1"/>
    <max value="1"/>
  </focus>
  <focus>
    <code value="Patient"/>
    <profile
             value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/StructureDefinition/fod-decedent"/>
    <min value="1"/>
    <max value="1"/>
  </focus>
</MessageDefinition>