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terminal event

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terminal event
Forensic pathology A complication of an underlying cause of death, which is uniformly fatal if not immediately reversed. See Mechanism of death.


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Although the terminal event was pneumonia, the illness that caused that was diabetes.
00 Hardcover Wiley reference series in biostatistics QA276 In biostatistics, survival analysis studies lifetimes from the initiating event to the terminal event, while event history analysis, an independent discipline, studies more general patterns of individuals moving between states over time.
He added: "There were two terminal events, the heart and lung failure, and the dying of a part of Mr Shaile's small intestine.
 
 
 
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