Error While Marking Patient Deceased

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@rishabh997 can these links help out

Mark Patient as Dead - #11 by dkayiwa

What concept(s) are you using for cause of death for your implementations?

Hi, I’m working on submitting a case report for a patient and I need to submit death info about them specifically the cause of death, in OpenMRS in order to mark a patient as dead, you need to specify the cause death and you’d need to first configure what the question concepts is, I’m curious to know what concept(s) implementations are using out there. Thanks in advance! Wyclif

Why do we require a cause of death concept to mark patient as dead?

Continuing the discussion from Mark Patient as Dead: person.cause_of_death is part of the data model. Why do we then require a “Cause of death” concept to be defined before a person can be marked as dead? If we create an observation for cause of death, could it be optional (i.e., if a concept hasn’t been defined, then don’t create an observation)? Tickets like TRUNK-3269 suggest that we’re using observations for recording cause of death. Why is that? Also, searching JIRA, it doesn’t look lik…