79378-6
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 79378-6 | ||||||
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| description | Official 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." | ||||||
| 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. | ||||||
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| short name | Finding; Findings; H+P; H+P.HX; Nominal; P prime; Point in time; Random | ||||||
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| class | H&P.HX | ||||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||||
| order vs. observation | Cause of death | ||||||
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| last updated | 2.54 | ||||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||||
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