VRDR Testing

Notes/items for VRDR testing

Fourquet Test Data / Spreadsheet

• Alias
  • Spreadsheet uses the value Alias in column B
  • FHIR IG: Table 30 has an entry for "nickname". When you state Alias, do you mean to use "nickname"?
• Race of Cancer Patient
  • Spreadsheet calls for Asian Indian, but there is no corresponding code defined
  • https://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet-omb-race-category.html
• Decedent/Mother's Maiden Name:
  • VRDR FHIR IG: 14.3 VRDR Decedent Mother describes mother, but does not specify this is a maiden name
  • Is there any place else in the document that describes mother's maiden name?
• Education of Cancer patient (and others)
  • You have english values that make sense, but are not part of the value set.
  • Are you expecting documents to use the proper encoding? I assume so.

VRDR FHIR IG: VRDR Death Certificate Document

• Table 30 says there shall be a Name entry with use value nickname (cardinality 1..1)
  • Do you really mean the cardinality is 1..1?
  • That means that someone without a nickname is going to have an entry for nickname that is empty

VRDR Canary Synthetic Data

• Ethnicity
  • Generated document contained no data for Ethnicity
• Occupation
  • FHIR IG requires a component with code=21847-9
  • Sample document uses code 21843-8