Terminal Sedation

Preferred Label : Terminal Sedation;

NCIt synonyms : Assisted Suicide; Euthanasia;

NCIt related terms : Euthanized; mercy killing;

NCIt definition : The purposeful use of morphine, other opiates, or other pharmaceuticals at doses adequate to end life functions.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: An easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000457957; CDR0000450106;

Details

Origin ID

C21115;

UMLS CUI

C0015187;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Assisted suicide [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Euthanasia [HPMULTI term]
- Euthanasia [UNESCO concept]
- euthanasia [DeCS]
- euthanasia [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- suicide, assisted [DeCS]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Assisted suicide (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- assisted suicide [SNOMED Notion]
- euthanasia [Q-code]
- euthanasia [MeSH Descriptor]
- euthanasia [MeSH concept]
- euthanasia [SNOMED Notion]
- suicide, assisted [MeSH Descriptor]
- suicide, assisted [MeSH concept]
False automatic mappings
- Euthanasia (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Assisted suicide [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Assisted suicide (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Euthanasia (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- assisted suicide [SNOMED Notion]
- euthanasia [SNOMED Notion]
- euthanasia [MeSH Descriptor]
- euthanasia [MeSH concept]
- suicide, assisted [MeSH concept]
- suicide, assisted [MeSH Descriptor]
concept_is_in_subset
- CPTAC Causes of Death Codelist [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Codelists Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Terminology [NCIt concept]

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