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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-40046

Patient.deceasedDateTime should be Must Support

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    • Change Request
    • Resolution: Not Persuasive
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    • US Core (FHIR)
    • 6.0.0-ballot
    • Cross-Group Projects
    • STU
    • US Core Patient Profile
    • Profiles and Extensions
    • 13.149.5
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      The following guidance is provided on the Patient Profile Page:

       

       

      Additional USCDI Requirements

      For ONC’s USCDI requirements, each Patient must support the following additional elements. These elements are included in the formal definition of the profile. The patient examples include all of these elements.

      ...

      8. date of death

       

      and 

      Profile specific implementation guidance:

      *

      Note that Date of Death Previous NameSuffix,and Previous address are listed in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability.

        • Date of Death is communicated using the Patient.deceasedDateTime element.

       

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      The following guidance is provided on the Patient Profile Page:     Additional USCDI Requirements For ONC’s USCDI requirements, each Patient must support the following additional elements. These elements are included in the formal definition of the profile. The patient examples include all of these elements. ... 8. date of death   and  Profile specific implementation guidance: * Note that  Date of Death   Previous Name ,  Suffix ,and  Previous address  are listed in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability. Date of Death is communicated using the  Patient.deceasedDateTime  element.  
    • Eric Haas/Brett Marquard: 21-0-2

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      Since USCDI V3 now includes the Patient Date of Death element the US Core Patient Profile should have the deceasedDateTime element as Must Support. But I'm not sure what we should do with deceasedBoolean. The USCDI element specifically mentions a "Date" and doesn't include any provision for just marking a patient as dead without a date. Should we constrain the data type for Patient.deceased[x] in this profile to just dateTime?

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