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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality > Precipitating Factors
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality > Precipitating Factors
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality > Precipitating Factors
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality > Precipitating Factors
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Causality > Precipitating Factors

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Precipitating Factors  

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Definition

  • 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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