Health Risk Assessment

Preferred Label : Health Risk Assessment;

NCIt synonyms : Risk Assessment;

NCIt definition : An estimated probability that one or more adverse event(s) will occur as a result of exposure to an actual or potential hazardous situation or chemical.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A process used to estimate the risk that a certain event will happen. In medicine, this may include a person's risk of having a child with a certain condition or disease, such as cancer. It may also be used to estimate the risk of carrying a certain gene mutation (change), or of having an adverse event (unexpected medical problem) in response to certain types of drugs or other substances. A risk assessment may be done by collecting information about a person's age, sex, personal and family medical history, ethnic background, lifestyle, and other factors and using statistics tools to calculate risk.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000460214;

Details

Origin ID

C15367;

UMLS CUI

C0679809;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Risk Assessment [DeCS]
- Risk assessment [HPMULTI term]
- Risk assessment done (situation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Risk assessment status (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Risk assessments [LOINC component]
- risk assessment [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
False automatic mappings
- Risk assessment (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- risk assessment [MeSH Descriptor]
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- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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