terminally ill

Preferred Label : terminally ill;

MeSH definition : Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780);

MeSH synonym : ill, terminally;

MeSH annotation : the terminal patient himself; care of the terminal patient TERMINAL CARE;

Wikipedia link supervised : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminally ill;

Details

Origin ID

D019452;

UMLS CUI

C0039552;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Terminal Disease [NCIt concept]
- Terminal illness (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- terminally ill [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Metaterm(s)
- palliative medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- terminally ill [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- advance directive adherence [MeSH Descriptor]
- advance directives [MeSH Descriptor]
- hospice and palliative care nursing [MeSH Descriptor]
- right to die [MeSH Descriptor]
- terminal care [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Patient or Disabled Group [UMLS semantic type]

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