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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-40898

Support for Time of Pronounced Death

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    • Icon: Change Request Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive
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    • US Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) (FHIR)
    • 2.1.0
    • Public Health
    • Observation - Death Date
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      DeathDate's Observation.component[datetimePronouncedDead].value can now be either a time (when only the time component is known) or a dateTime (when only a date is known, or both date and time are known).

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      DeathDate's Observation.component [datetimePronouncedDead] .value can now be either a time (when only the time component is known) or a dateTime (when only a date is known, or both date and time are known).
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    • Compatible, substantive
    • Yes

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      • In STU2.1, we added a PartialDateTime extension which proved inappropriate.
      • This value can not be either a time or a dateTime and that addresses the problem in STU2 that a death time without a death date was awkward to specify.

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            saul_kravitz Saul Kravitz
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