catastrophic illness

Preferred Label : catastrophic illness;

MeSH definition : An acute or prolonged illness usually considered to be life-threatening or with the threat of serious residual disability. Treatment may be radical and is frequently costly.;

MeSH synonym : illness, catastrophic; catastrophic illnesses; illnesses, catastrophic;

MeSH annotation : usually GEN & IM; if a specific catastrophic illiness, coord NIM with specific dis (IM); coordinate with specific disease if pertinent;

Details

Origin ID

D002388;

UMLS CUI

C0007397;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- rehabilitation [MeSH Qualifier]
- therapy [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Critical illness [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Deep bite wound (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Graves Disease [NCIt concept]
- Graves' disease [MedDRA LLT]
- Graves' disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Heavy chain disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Heavy chain disease (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Hereditary lymphedema type II (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Nitrogen trichloride poisoning (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Undifferentiated illness: Vague ill health (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- severe illness [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- toxic diffuse goiter [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Battey disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
Metaterm(s)
- disaster medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- catastrophic illness [MeSH concept]
See also
- insurance, major medical [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]

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