Cause of death   79378-6

LOINC Code


LOINC code79378-6
nameCause of death
descriptionOfficial cause of death as coded from the death certificate in valid ICD-7, ICD-8, ICD-9, and ICD-10 codes. If an appropriate ICD code cannot be found, there are three supplemental codes: 0000 Patient alive at last contact, 7777 State death certificate not available, and 7797 State death certification available by underlying cause of death is not coded (Refer to the SEER Program Code Manual for additional information). Cause of death is used for the calculation of adjusted survival rates by the life table method. This term was created for, but not limited in use to, the "Standards for Cancer Registries Volume II, Data Standards and Data Dictionary, Tenth Edition, Record Layout Version 11."
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentCause of death
propertyFind  =  Finding
timePt  =  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^Patient
scaleNom  =  Nominal:  Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method

Additional Names

short nameCause of death

Basic Attributes

classH&P.HX
type2  Clinical
order vs. observationObservation

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.

Member of these Panels

85735-9Congenital rubella case report panel
55173-9ED disposition and diagnosis data Set DEEDS
85057-8PCORnet Common Data Model set - version 3.0 [PCORnet]

History/Usage

first released
last updated2.54
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

Related Names

Finding
Findings
H+P
H+P.HX
Nominal
P prime
Point in time
Random

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