Stream: implementers
Topic: cause of death/healed
Patrick Werner (Mar 29 2020 at 15:39):
In the context of covid19 modelling i have two questions:
- how do we represent the cause of death? (found the vrdr profile, which is only having a code pointing to SCT term, so without meta.profile this observation can't be interpreted. I dislike this approach as i think "cause of death" should be semantically included in a cause of death instance.
- same for healed from.
To me these two could be implemented by two profile on Observation:
- Observation.code expresses: death-caused-by/healed-from
- Observation.component can point the actual desease code from which the patient recovered, or which caused his death.
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 29 2020 at 17:00):
Why component and not just Observation.value?
Patrick Werner (Mar 29 2020 at 19:20):
stupid me, sorry. http://hl7.org/fhir/us/vrdr/2019May/CauseOfDeathCondition.html confused me.
Patrick Werner (Mar 29 2020 at 19:27):
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