Use Case(s)

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tracks provisional coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality data, including the age of death. This information can be used for research purposes, such as understanding risk of mortality from the disease and potentially treatments as well. (Reference: Please see Table 2 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm)

Artifact

COVID-19 Age at Death Reference Set

Purpose of Refset

The purpose of this reference set is to document the age at which a person has died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). References LOINC code 39016-1 Age at death and SNOMED observable entity concept 6061000205104 Age at time of death (observable entity).

Examples of what to include

CDC NCHS identified age ranges such as:

• Under 1 year

• 25–34 years

• 85 years and over

Examples of what to exclude

Zero or one OR Zero or more

Zero or one: Either no values or only one value can be selected from the refset

Editorial Guidelines

SNOMED CT does not have pre-existing concepts to represent the CDC NCHS Table 2 identified age ranges. Therefore, new concepts will need to be created as subtypes of 105726004 |Age AND/OR growth finding (finding)| and then added to the refset.

Similar SOLOR Refsets (assemblages)

None at this time

Associated Value Sets

None at this time