AeHIN Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCoD) Implementation Guide
0.1.0 - Draft for AeHIN Member Review Asia

Bangladesh Core FHIR Implementation Guide - Published by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. See the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: MCCoD Condition Category (Experimental)

Official URL: http://mccod.w3datanet.com/fhir/CodeSystem/mccod-condition-category Version: 0.1.0
Draft as of 2026-05-21 Computable Name: MCCoDConditionCategoryCS

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Code system providing category codes to distinguish the different types of Condition resources used in the AeHIN MCCoD IG. These codes allow systems to unambiguously identify the role of a Condition within a MCCoD document without relying on profile URL matching.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

  • This CodeSystem is not used here; it may be used elsewhere (e.g. specifications and/or implementations that use this content)

This case-insensitive code system http://mccod.w3datanet.com/fhir/CodeSystem/mccod-condition-category defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
underlying-cause-of-death Underlying Cause of Death

The disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death (WHO definition). Used to categorise MCCoDUnderlyingCauseOfDeath Condition instances.

contributing-condition Contributing Condition

A condition that contributed to death but was not part of the direct causal chain. Corresponds to Frame A Part 2 of the WHO MCCoD form. Used to categorise MCCoDContributingCondition instances.