Comorbidities
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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| METEOR identifier: | 432968 |
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| Definition: | A pathologic or disease process concomitant with but unrelated to the primary disease. For example, a person diagnosed with lung cancer may also have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
| Property group: | Illness and/or Injury event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 28th edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 417 |
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Relational attributes | |
| Data Element Concepts implementing this property: | Person with cancer—comorbidities
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