Glossary:Contributing condition (cause)

From Statistics Explained

Contributing condition (cause), Any cause of death that is neither the immediate, intervening, originating antecedent nor underlying is a contributory cause of death. These are other significant conditions that contributed to the fatal outcome, but were not related to the disease or condition directly causing death (should be reported in part II).

Related concepts

• Cause of death

Statistical data

Source

• ISTAT glossary [1] ICD-10 2nd Edition Vol. 2, page35