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Descriptor English:

Critical Illness

Descriptor Spanish:

Enfermedad Crítica

Descriptor Portuguese:

Estado Terminal

Tree Number:

C23.550.291.625

Definition English:

A disease or state in which death is possible or imminent.

Indexing Annotation English:

IM GEN only; do not index with specific dis of critically ill patient unless particularly discussed & then NIM with no qualif; /ther: consider also CRITICAL CARE

History Note English:

Allowable Qualifiers English:

classification	economics
epidemiology	mortality
nursing	psychology
rehabilitation	therapy

Record Number:

30170

Unique Identifier:

D016638

Occurrence in VHL:

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