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Precipitating Factors  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease, accident, or behavioral response

Scope note

  • Factors associated with the definitive onset of a disease, illness, accident, behavioral response, or course of action. Usually one factor is more important or more obviously recognizable than others, if several are involved, and one may often be regarded as "necessary". Examples include exposure to specific disease; amount or level of an infectious organism, drug, or noxious agent, etc.

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  • 90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015985

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