Genetic Counseling

Preferred Label : Genetic Counseling;

NCIt definition : The process whereby an expert in hereditary disorders provides information about risk and clinical burden of a disorder or disorders to patients or relatives in families with genetic disorders as an aid to making informed and responsible decisions about marriage, children, early diagnosis, and handling disability.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A communication process between a specially trained health professional and a person concerned about the genetic risk of disease. The person's family and personal medical history may be discussed, and counseling may lead to genetic testing.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000044961;

Details

Origin ID

C15240;

UMLS CUI

C0017382;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Genetic counseling [ICD-9 code]
- Genetic counselling [HPMULTI term]
- Genetic counselling [ICHI intervention]
False automatic mappings
- Genetic Counselling [ICNP intervention]
- Genetic counseling (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Genetic Counselling [ICNP intervention]
- Genetic counseling (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Genetic counselling [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- genetic counseling [CISMeF resources Type]
- genetic counseling [MedlinePlus Topic]
- genetic counseling [MeSH concept]
- genetic counseling [MeSH Descriptor]
- genetic counseling [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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