Death certificate 64297-5
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 64297-5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Death certificate | ||
| description | A death certificate is a public, legal document issued by a government official (such as a registrar of vital statistics) that declares the date, location, and cause of a person's death. The physician's principal responsibility in death registration is to complete the medical part of the death certificate, which includes: date and time pronounced dead, date and time of death, whether case was referred to medical examiner or coroner, cause of death section (cause of death, manner of death, tobacco use, pregnancy status for females), injury items (for cases involving injury), and certifier section (with signatures). This term could be used for other kinds of death certificates (e.g. non-US) and for CDA. | ||
| status | ACTIVE | ||
Fully-Specified Name | |||
| component | Death certificate | ||
| property | Find = Finding | ||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||
| system | {Setting} | ||
| scale | Doc = Document: A document that could be in many formats (XML, narrative, etc.) | ||
| method | {Role} | ||
Additional Names | |||
| short name | Death certificate | ||
Basic Attributes | |||
| class | DOC.ONTOLOGY | ||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||
| order vs. observation | Both | ||
Associated Observations | |||
LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations. | |||
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History/Usage | |||
| first released | |||
| last updated | 2.67 | ||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||
| change reason | Based on Clinical LOINC Committee decision during the September 2014 meeting, {Provider} was changed to {Author Type} to emphasize a greater breadth of potential document authors. At the September 2015 Clinical LOINC Committee meeting, the Committee decided to change {Author Type} to {Role} to align with the 'Role' axis name in the LOINC Document Ontology. | ||
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