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MeSH Heading: Elective Surgical Procedures
Tree Number(s): E04.249
Unique ID: D017558
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017558
Scope Note: Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.
Entry Version: ELECTIVE SURG PROCEDURES
Entry Term(s): Elective Surgical Procedure; Procedure, Elective Surgical; Procedures, Elective Surgical; Surgical Procedure, Elective; Surgical Procedures, Elective
Previous Indexing: Surgical Procedures, Operative (1966-1993)
See Also: Prophylactic Surgical Procedures
Public MeSH Note: 2015; see SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE 1998-2014; see SURGERY, ELECTIVE 1994-1997
History Note: 2015(1994)
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/12/28
Revision Date: 2014/06/23

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects (AE)

classification (CL)

economics (EC)

education (ED)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

instrumentation (IS)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

methods (MT)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

psychology (PX)

rehabilitation (RH)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

veterinary (VE)

Concept UI: M0026618
Scope Note: Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.
Terms: Elective Surgical Procedures Preferred Term
Term UI T052650
Date05/30/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998); Elective Surgical Procedure
Term UI T052646
Date05/30/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998); Procedure, Elective Surgical
Term UI T052647
Date05/30/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998); Procedures, Elective Surgical
Term UI T052648
Date05/30/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998); Surgical Procedure, Elective
Term UI T052649
Date05/30/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998); Surgical Procedures, Elective
Term UI T052651
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994)

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