Health Care

Accidents

Unexpected and unintentional events, typically resulting in ACCIDENTAL INJURIES.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Unexpected and unintentional events, typically resulting in ACCIDENTAL INJURIES.

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  • Accident

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, mortality, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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  1. N06.850w.135w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Accidents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000059. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000059
  2. Accidents. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident
  3. Accidents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171558