Elective Surgical Procedures

Preferred Label : Elective Surgical Procedures;

MeSH definition : Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.;

MeSH synonym : procedures, elective surgical; procedure, elective surgical; surgical procedure, elective; elective surgical procedure; Surgical Procedures, Elective;

MeSH annotation : do not use /util except by MeSH definition; DF: SURG PROCEDURES ELECTIVE;

Details

Origin ID

D017558;

UMLS CUI

C0206058;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- contraindications [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- rehabilitation [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Contact with health services for specific surgical interventions [Bloc CIM-11]
- Optional surgery (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Elective Surgical Procedure [NCIt concept]
- Elective surgery [MedDRA Preferred Term]
Record concept(s)
- Elective Surgical Procedures [MeSH concept]
See also
- Prophylactic Surgical Procedures [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Elective Surgical Procedure [NCIt concept]
- Elective surgery [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Optional surgery (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]

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