The Cause of Death section in the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death consists of two parts. Part I, represented by this LOINC (69453-9), is for reporting the chain of events leading directly to death, including the immediate cause of death followed by the intermediate and underlying causes of death. A given cause of death may be recorded as both intermediate and underlying. The underlying cause of death (the disease or injury that initiated the chain of morbid events that led directly and inevitably to death) must be reported and should be entered last in Part I. Part II of the Cause of Death section [LOINC: 69441-4] is for reporting all other significant diseases, conditions, or injuries that contributed to death but which did not result in the underlying cause of death.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Cause of death
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
^Patient
scale
Nom = 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
US standard certificate of death
Additional Names
short name
Echography; Finding; Findings; Nominal; Point in time; Random; Sonogram; Sonograph; Sonography; Survey; SURVEY.CDC; ULS; Ultrasound; US Death Certificate
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