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Descriptor English: Disease Progression
Descriptor Spanish: Progresión de la Enfermedad
Descriptor progresión de la enfermedad
Entry term(s) curso clínico
progresión clínica
Scope note: Empeoramiento y progresión general de una enfermedad con el paso del tiempo. Este concepto se emplea con mayor frecuencia para las enfermedades crónicas e incurables, en las que el estado de la enfermedad es un determinante importante del tratamiento y del pronóstico.
Descriptor Portuguese: Progressão da Doença
Descriptor French: Évolution de la maladie
Entry term(s): Clinical Course
Clinical Progression
Disease Exacerbation
Disease Progressions
Progression, Clinical
Progression, Disease
Progressions, Disease
Tree number(s): C23.550.291.656
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018450
Scope note: The worsening and general progression of a disease over time. This concept is most often used for chronic and incurable diseases where the stage of the disease is an important determinant of therapy and prognosis.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Entry Version: DIS PROGRESSION
DeCS ID: 32285
Unique ID: D018450
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Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 2022/07/11
Disease Progression - Preferred
Concept UI M0027676
Scope note The worsening and general progression of a disease over time. This concept is most often used for chronic and incurable diseases where the stage of the disease is an important determinant of therapy and prognosis.
Preferred term Disease Progression
Entry term(s) Disease Progressions
Progression, Disease
Progressions, Disease
Disease Exacerbation - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0518984
Preferred term Disease Exacerbation
Clinical Course - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000752686
Preferred term Clinical Course
Entry term(s) Clinical Progression
Progression, Clinical



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