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Descriptor
English
:
Chronic Disease
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Enfermedad Crónica
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Doença Crônica
Synonyms
English
:
Chronic Illness
Tree Number:
C23.550.291.500
HP1.007.262.808.139
HP2.029.319
HP3.029
Definition
English
:
Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special
training
of the patient for
rehabilitation
, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision,
observation
, or care. (
Dictionary
of
Health Services Management
, 2d ed)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
IM GEN only; usually NIM with specific dis IM; no qualif when NIM; Manual 23.16+
See Related
English
:
Pain Management
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
DT
drug therapy
EC
economics
EP
epidemiology
EH
ethnology
MO
mortality
NU
nursing
PC
prevention & control
PX
psychology
RH
rehabilitation
TH
therapy
Record Number:
28563
Unique Identifier:
D002908
Occurrence in VHL
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