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Fatal Outcome

"Fatal Outcome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Death resulting from the presence of a disease in an individual, as shown by a single case report or a limited number of patients. This should be differentiated from DEATH, the physiological cessation of life and from MORTALITY, an epidemiological or statistical concept.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fatal Outcome" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fatal Outcome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 220 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2008 and 2016
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