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Descriptor English: Severity of Illness Index
Descriptor Spanish: Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad
Descriptor índice de la gravedad de la enfermedad
Entry term(s) índice de severidad de la enfermedad
Scope note: Niveles dentro de un grupo diagnóstico que se establecen por diversos criterios de determinación aplicados a la gravedad del trastorno de un paciente.
Descriptor Portuguese: Índice de Gravidade de Doença
Descriptor French: Indice de gravité de la maladie
Entry term(s): Illness Index Severities
Illness Index Severity
Index Severities, Illness
Index Severity, Illness
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.980.438.475.456.500
N05.715.360.300.800.438.375.364.500
N06.850.520.308.980.438.475.364.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012720
Scope note: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.
Annotation: TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES is also available but do not confuse with TRIAGE, emergency selection of patients by priority of need
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 89; was see under DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS 1986-88; was SEVERITY OF ILLNESS CLASSIFICATION see CASE MIX 1984-85
Online Note: search DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS 1984-85
History Note: 89(86); was see under DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS 1986-88; was SEVERITY OF ILLNESS CLASSIFICATION see CASE MIX 1984-85
DeCS ID: 18001
Unique ID: D012720
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Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1985/05/23
Revision Date: 2020/01/16
Severity of Illness Index - Preferred
Concept UI M0019706
Scope note Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.
Preferred term Severity of Illness Index
Entry term(s) Illness Index Severities
Illness Index Severity
Index Severities, Illness
Index Severity, Illness



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