crvs:FetalDeath
Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. Distinct from live Birth followed by Death, and from miscarriages below viability thresholds set by national law. Captures gestational age, weight, and coded cause of fetal death using ICD-PM where available.
https://publicschema.org/crvs/FetalDeath
Supertypes
Properties
| Property | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| event_date from VitalEvent | date | The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Disti... |
| event_date_estimated from VitalEvent | boolean | Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for... |
| event_location from VitalEvent | concept:Location | The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of ... |
| registration_number from VitalEvent | string | The unique number assigned by the civil registration authority when the vital ev... |
| registration_date from VitalEvent | date | The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil regis... |
| registration_location from VitalEvent | concept:Location | The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a muni... |
| registration_type from VitalEvent | string (crvs/registration-type) | The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal... |
| registrar from VitalEvent | concept:Person | The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions thi... |
| informant from VitalEvent | concept:Person | The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typ... |
| registration_status from VitalEvent | string (crvs/registration-status) | The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it... |
| record_id from Event | string | The identifier assigned to this record by the system that created it. Used to re... |
| parents | concept:Parent | The parents of the child, each captured as a Parent link entity that combines a ... |
| place_type | string (crvs/place-type) | The category of place where the vital event occurred (health facility, home, en ... |
| attendant_at_birth | string (crvs/birth-attendant) | The type of person who attended the delivery (physician, midwife, nurse, traditi... |
| gestational_age | integer | The completed weeks of gestation at the time of the event. Used for fetal death ... |
| weight | decimal | The weight of the fetus at the time of a fetal death, recorded in grams. Combine... |
| cause_of_fetal_death | string | A free-text description of the cause of a fetal death. Captured alongside cause_... |
| cause_of_fetal_death_code | string | The coded cause of a fetal death, typically an ICD-PM (Perinatal Mortality) code... |
| cause_of_fetal_death_coding_system | string | The classification system used to code the cause of a fetal death (for example I... |
| medical_certifier | concept:Person | The medical practitioner who certified the cause of death. Distinct from the reg... |
Evidence
| Standard | Equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| OpenCRVS v1 GraphQL | No v1 equivalent | none |
| OpenCRVS does not model fetal death as a distinct event. The field BirthRegistration.foetalDeathsToMother is a statistical count on the mother's birth record, not a registration of the fetal death itself. | ||