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CAUSE CONTRIBUTIVE DECES [1 record]

Record 1 2013-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Demography
  • Epidemiology
  • Emergency Management
CONT

Consequences or complications of [the disease, situation or event that started the chain of events resulting in death] are usually considered secondary causes of death, in the same way as other diseases present at the time of death that may have contributed to the death.

OBS

[A] contributory cause of death is inherently one not related to the principal cause.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Démographie
  • Épidémiologie
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Dans [les causes complexes de décès], on peut distinguer [...] la cause initiale du décès, ou cause principale du décès, et les causes associées du décès, ou causes contributives du décès, ou causes secondaires du décès.

Spanish

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