cause of death

Preferred Label : cause of death;

MeSH definition : Factors which produce cessation of all vital bodily functions. They can be analyzed from an epidemiologic viewpoint.;

MeSH synonym : death causes; causes of death; death cause;

MeSH annotation : note categories; do not use for cause of death in every clinical case; restrict to cause of death as an epidemiological consideration: mortality by cause of death, certification of cause of death; probably IM in such cases; coord NIM with specific disease /mortal (IM); specify geog if pertinent;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause of death;

Details

Origin ID

D002423;

UMLS CUI

C0007465;

Allowable qualifiers
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Age of death [HPO term]
- Cause of Death Ranking [NCIt concept]
- DEATH [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Dead [NCIt concept]
- Death [PASCAL descriptor]
- Death [ICNP subject]
- Death [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Death [UNESCO concept]
- Death (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Death Cause Domain [NCIt concept]
- death [Radlex concept]
- death [ICPC-2 Rubric]
- death [PSIP Taxonomy Term]
- death [ICPS Descriptor]
- death, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- obsolete death [GO term]
Record concept(s)
- cause of death [MeSH concept]
See also
- death [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Finding [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Cause of Death [NCIt concept]
- Cause of death [LOINC component]
- Cause of death [LOINC System]
- Cause of death (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Cause of deaths [LOINC component]
- Death diagnosis (contextual qualifier) (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- death diagnosis [SNOMED Notion]

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