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Severity of Illness Index

"Severity of Illness Index" 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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Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Severity of Illness Index" by people in this website by year, and whether "Severity of Illness Index" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 698 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 49 publications in 2017
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