Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 697217 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/10/2018 |
Definition: | The blocking of a blood vessel by a clot that has broken away from its site of origin. It includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (NICE 2015). |